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He come and ketched me last night sitting on the floor cross-legged, fine-drawing a hole in his dress-vest, and he burst out a-laughing, good-humoured like. "`Why, Brigley, he says, `I didn't know you were a tailor. "`More I am, sir, I says; `but a man as pretends to valet a gent, and can't draw up a tear, or put on a button, ain't worth calling a servant, sir, I says.
It is still known by its old name, which custom had sanctioned; but I imagine no learned man can ever utter it now without a feeling of humility, and without the thought that the future has possibly many contradictions in store for him also. Besides, nitrogen has to pass through many fine-drawing processes before it attains that post of honor which has been assigned to it in the animal kingdom.
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