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By the care with which this story is treasured up in their memory, and the earnestness and horror with which it is related, the Landers were inclined to believe, that although there is so great a fuss about the Borgoo robbers, and so manifest a dread of them, that a minder on the high-way is of very rare occurrence.

'And does he work for you? asked the Secretary, gently bringing the discourse back to Master or Mister Sloppy. 'Yes, said Betty with a good-humoured smile and nod of the head. 'And well too. 'Does he live here? 'He lives more here than anywhere. He was thought to be no better than a Natural, and first come to me as a Minder.

Der Kenner sagt ihm fiei heraus, Dass ihm das Bild nicht ganz gefallen wollte, Und dass es, um recht schon zu sein, Weit minder Kunst verrathen sollte. Der Maler wandte vieles ein; Der Kenner stritt mit ihm aus Grunden, Und konnt ihn doch nicht uberwinden. Gleich trat ein junger Geck herein, Und nahm das Bild in Augenschein.

Her niece had seen her and approached, as the machinery began to still for the dinner-hour. "Morning, Sarah. Can you do such wonders as Miss Dinnett?" she asked. "No, Aunt Nelly. I'm a spreader minder. But I'll be a spinner some day, if Mr. Roberts likes for me to stop, here after I'm married." "Sarah would soon learn to spin," declared Sabina.

To this peculiarity of the human mind was due, no doubt, the fact that no sooner had I abandoned the clinical side of my profession in favour of the legal, and taken up my abode in the chambers of my friend Thorndyke, the famous medico-legal expert, to act as his assistant or junior, than my former mode of life that of a locum tenens, or minder of other men's practices which had, when I was following it, seemed intolerably irksome, now appeared to possess many desirable features; and I found myself occasionally hankering to sit once more by the bedside, to puzzle out the perplexing train of symptoms, and to wield that power the greatest, after all, possessed by man the power to banish suffering and ward off the approach of death itself.

I made interest with Mr Blogg the Beadle to have him as a Minder, seeing him by chance up at church, and thinking I might do something with him. For he was a weak ricketty creetur then. 'Is he called by his right name? 'Why, you see, speaking quite correctly, he has no right name. I always understood he took his name from being found on a Sloppy night. 'He seems an amiable fellow.