The carpenter partitioned off another room, and our boarder brought his trunk and a large red velvet arm-chair, and took up his abode at "Rudder Grange." We liked our boarder very much, but he had some peculiarities.

I suppose everybody has them.

Among other things, he was very fond of telling us what we ought to do.

He suggested more improvements in the first three days of his sojourn with us than I had thought of since we commenced housekeeping.

And what made the matter worse, his suggestions were generally very good ones.