Hodge scratches his head and says, "Well, I have nothing to say to that; all I know is, that he is bang up, and I wish I were he;" perhaps he will add--a Hodge has been known to add--"He has been kind enough to put my son on that very railroad; 'tis true the company is somewhat queer and the work rather killing, but he gets there half-a-crown a day, whereas from the farmers he would only get eighteen- pence." You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands, and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all he has dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes.

But the mechanic says, "Well, the more fools they to let themselves be robbed.

But I don't call that kind of thing robbery, I merely call it outwitting; and everybody in this free country has a right to outwit others if he can.

What a turn- out he has!" One was once heard to add, "I never saw a more genteel-looking man in all my life except one, and that was a gentleman's walley, who was much like him.

It is true he is rather undersized, but then madam, you know, makes up for all.".