It was a fair method of preaching the Gospel to the poor, for that crowd was of the humblest.
The "Crock of Gold" has been translated complete as a _feuilleton_ both in French and German by newspapers; and I have copies somewhere,--but I know not who wrote the French, the German authoress having been the Fraulein Von Lagerstroem.
What Mr.Butler says in his preface, no doubt after speech with me, for I was his visitor at the time in 1851, is this:-- "All who have had the good fortune to meet Mr.Tupper during his visit here have been struck with his characteristic impulsiveness.

In accordance with this feature of his mind, nearly all of his most successful performances have been occasioned by something altogether incidental and unpremeditated--the result of an impulse accidentally--shall we not say, providentially ?--imparted.

It was so with the first work in this series (four volumes) respecting the composition of which he has given to me in conversation the following account.

Some years ago he purchased a house at Brighton.

While laying out the garden, he had occasion to have several drains made.