I've had 'em this year, and they haven't stirred .-- He spoke, and handed the chair towards me,--seating himself, at the same time, on the end of the bed.
You have lived in this house some time ?--I said,--with a note of interrogation at the end of the statement.
Do I look as if I'd lost much flesh--said he, answering my question by another.
No,--said I;--for that matter, I think you do credit to "the bountifully furnished table of the excellent lady who provides so liberally for the company that meets around her hospitable board." [The sentence in quotation-marks was from one of those disinterested editorials in small type, which I suspect to have been furnished by a friend of the landlady's, and paid for as an advertisement.

This impartial testimony to the superior qualities of the establishment and its head attracted a number of applicants for admission, and a couple of new boarders made a brief appearance at the table.

One of them was of the class of people who grumble if they don't get canvas-backs and woodcocks every day, for three-fifty per week.

The other was subject to somnambulism, or walking in the night, when he ought to have been asleep in his bed.

In this state he walked into several of the boarders' chambers, his eyes wide open, as is usual with somnambulists, and, from some odd instinct or other, wishing to know what the hour was, got together a number of their watches, for the purpose of comparing them, as it would seem.