A."; and with an appreciative smile said: "Very good, I should say.

Yes, very good." "Good! It's really very bad, and you know it.

So do I.But you're too much of a gentleman to say so.

Can't be worse, really, but 'puttying up' is down by the heels, and there hasn't been an old master from Flushing, Long Island, or Weehawken, New Jersey, lugged up our stairs for a month;--two months, really.

We had one last week from a dealer down-town which turned out to be genuine after Sam had looked it over.