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The hand of Toussaint had made a slight, a very slight, movement towards his hip, but at sight of Cutler's mellow smile resumed its clasp upon his knee. "Golly, but you're gay-like this evening," said Kelley. "Blamed if I knowed he could look so frisky," added Loomis. "Sporting his onced-a-year coat," Kelley pursued. "That ain't for our benefit, Joole." "No, we're not that high in society."
It was some time before order was restored, and when Jerry went into the house to light his pipe and deposit his money, I called Cutler's attention to the action and style of a horse in the pasture whom my gun had alarmed. "That animal," said I, "must have dropped from the clouds. If he is young and sound, and he moves as if he were both, he is worth six hundred dollars.
The house full, but I had no mind to be seen, but thence to .my cutler's, and two or three other places on small, errands, and so home, where my father and wife come home, and pretty well my father, who to supper and betimes to bed at his country hours. I to Sir W. Batten's, and there got some more part of my dividend of the prize-money.
This house had been abandoned by its former occupant, on account of the forays of the Indians; but was now partially refitted, as for a temporary abode. Here, the people about "the grove" were surprised to learn, a few days after Cutler's departure, that he had halted with the apparent intention to remain, at least for some time. Their surprise was dissipated, however, within a very few weeks.
'Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings, cousin Crosbie ye little ken what some of your friends were obliged to do yon time for a sowp of brose, or a bit of bannock. G d, I carried a cutler's wheel for several weeks, partly for need, and partly for disguise there I went bizz bizz whizz zizz, at every auld wife's door; and if ever you want your shears sharpened, Mrs.
"He has gone to the cutler's to get his razors set. But I do not think he will tell anything." This was a poor harvest for my golden sowing. The man, I think, spoke truth, and would honestly have betrayed the secrets of the family, if he had possessed any. I took my leave politely; and mounting the stairs again, I found myself once more in my room. Forthwith I summoned my servant.
Whatever liberty the French might have acquired by their first revolution, it is now much like Sir John Cutler's worsted stockings, so torn, and worn, and disguised by patchings and mendings, that the original texture is not discoverable. Yours, &c. June 3, 1793.
Three days afterward, the celebrated Ordinance of 1787, for the government of that portion of the territory north-west of the Ohio, was completed and adopted to Cutler's satisfaction. "It is in a degree remodelled," he wrote in his journal. "The amendments I proposed have all been made except one, and that is better qualified."
"I have been thinking that it was a good thing you did not continue the cutlery business, because you have superior qualifications for this." "What qualifications have I for this that I have not for the cutler's trade?" asked Benjamin. "You are a good reader, and have an intellectual turn, being fond of books, and such things belonging to mental improvement as the trade of printer offers."
Thence together to my shoemaker's, cutler's, tailor's, and up and down about my mourning, and in my way do observe the great streets in the city are marked out with piles drove into the ground; and if ever it be built in that form with so fair streets, it will be a noble sight.
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