The old gentleman has a most reverent air, and I should imagine in quiet times goes about as a blind man with a dog.

He was turned out of the school in which he was a professor--a profane disbeliever in all virtue assures me--for being rather too affectionate towards some of the girls.

"I like little girls--big ones, too," Artemus Ward used to say, and so it appears did this worthy man.

Besides the clubs which I have mentioned, there are above 100 others.

Most of them are kept going by the sous which are collected for cannon, or some other vague object.