Scribner's magazine . A Provincial Politician. that I would tell my friends, and if wedecided to take the rooms we wouldlet her know, and we retreated, mybrother servilely agreeing to her Horidpraises of the location, the restaurant,and the real nice people that cameto the liouse, the nicest j)eople in theland. Strange as it may appear, I imaginethat she told no lies about her board-ers. I saw them occasionally, and theylooked to be well - bred and of them looked cheerful; buthaving been in the house, I could notexpect a sunny temper. I said none ;I err, there was one, whose good n
Scribner's magazine . A Provincial Politician. that I would tell my friends, and if wedecided to take the rooms we wouldlet her know, and we retreated, mybrother servilely agreeing to her Horidpraises of the location, the restaurant,and the real nice people that cameto the liouse, the nicest j)eople in theland. Strange as it may appear, I imaginethat she told no lies about her board-ers. I saw them occasionally, and theylooked to be well - bred and of them looked cheerful; buthaving been in the house, I could notexpect a sunny temper. I said none ;I err, there was one, whose good natureirradiated the whole street, every morn-ing, when he sallied out to have hisboots blacked. The polishing of shoes(whether black or russet) took i)lace ina chair on the sidewalk ; and in conse-. DRAWN B> A. B. FROST. A Gathering of the Powers. THE PEOPLE THAT IVE SEKl^E 197 quence of the public spot, there was more or less of an audience. Lau<:^hter often rolled out of this little crowd of spectators when the ^ood-natured man was in the chair. He was a clean - h)okinty man, who wore a fresh white shirt ea(^li day, and had a bald head as sliinin<^ as his shirt bosom. His bright eyes, his elastic step, and a kind of foppish and jaunty twist to his mustache gave one an impres-sion at first glancethat he was a pleasantfellow ; and his talk(which to be sure Ionly obtained in frag-ments on my way tothe Fair, past the boot-blacking) was shrewdand humorous as hiseye. Analyzing itand the amusement that it gave me,in large measure I decided that thedrollery did not run in independentparallels with the sense ; but ratherramified from it, as twigs spring andbranch from a parent stem. He had agift for expressing the conclusions ofthe average experience in a picturesqueway, with n
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