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IVES GETS A BUNDLE OF BANK NOTES.
I was surprised one morning, shortly after, to find myself the object of marked consideration by a civilian and a stranger.

This was a man of the middle age; he had a face of a mulberry colour, round black eyes, comical tufted eyebrows, and a protuberant forehead; and was dressed in clothes of a Quakerish cut.

In spite of his plainness, he had that inscrutable air of a man well-to-do in his affairs.

I conceived he had been some while observing me from a distance, for a sparrow sat betwixt us quite unalarmed on the breech of a piece of cannon.