I say, Karl, you are become a handsome youth." "I shall do," returned Karl, much flattered.

"I've got reconciled to agriculture.

My uncle is a worthy man.

If you picture my father to yourself about half his own size, thin instead of stout, and with a small stumpy nose instead of a large one, and a long face instead of a round, with a gray coat and no leather apron, and with a pair of great boots up to his knees, why then you have my uncle--a most capital little fellow.

He is very kind to me.