At the further end of it I saw a head, and a--a small portion of a little deformed body, mounted on a high chair, which brought the occupant up to a fair level enough for him to get at his food.

His whole appearance was so grotesque, I felt for a minute as if there was a showman behind him who would pull him down presently and put up Judy, or the hangman, or the Devil, or some other wooden personage of the famous spectacle.

I contrived to lose the first of his sentence, but what I heard began so: -- by the Frog-Pond, when there were frogs in and the folks used to come down from the tents on section and Independence days with their pails to get water to make egg-pop with.

Born in Boston; went to school in Boston as long as the boys would let me .-- The little man groaned, turned, as if to look around, and went on .-- Ran away from school one day to see Phillips hung for killing Denegri with a logger-head.

That was in flip days, when there were always two three loggerheads in the fire.