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. walking-stick, and calling her “jade.” That he gives away large
sums of money (which he carries about him in several purses).
That he is very capricious ; inasmuch as he will sometimes persist
doggedly for weeks in the most inhuman course of domestic tyranny,
making everybody wretched around him ; and then suddenly, and
from no particular conviction, change his mind, and give his consent

to anything, and his blessing to anybody.

PALL III IY

MR. WRIGHT.

HAT his ordinary costume is a white hat,
T very large in the crown, and very narrow
in the brim (which is turned up with
green); @ crimson neck-tie; and a snuff-
coloured coat, with bright buttons, and a
very short tail. That, on being introduced
to you, he would ask impertinent questions

as to the price of your wearing apparel,

the health of your mother, &c. He is not

 

considered at all a safe man to invite to your
house, being addicted to sitting on bonnets, and pouring tea-kettles
over the legs of any elderly gentlemen who may happen to be in

company. He has, moreover, @ knack of concealing himself, on
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