He comes our circuit, and I occasionally employ him, when I am obliged to go to law about such a thing as an unsound horse.

He generally brings me through--or rather that grin of his does--and yet I don't like the fellow, confound him, but I'm an oddity--no, the one I like, and whom I generally employ, is a fellow quite different, a bluff sturdy dog, with no grin on his face, but with a look which seems to say I am an honest man, and what cares I for any one.

And an honest man he is, and something more.

I have known coves with a better gift of the gab, though not many, but he always speaks to the purpose, and understands law thoroughly; and that's not all.

When at college, for he has been at college, he carried off everything before him as a Latiner, and was first-rate at a game they call matthew mattocks.