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Having borne this flattering testi incidentally shown this tendency to callinvited to sit down to table, looked all round the

room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,--as if it were

only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a

resting place,--and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the

chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals

"Do you take tea, or coffee, Mr Gargery?" asked Herbert, who always

presided of a

"Thankee, Sir," said Joe, stiff froreeable to yourself"

"What do you say to coffee?"

"Thankee, Sir," returned Joe, evidently dispirited by the proposal,

"since you are so kind as make chice of coffee, I will not run contrairy

to your own opinions But don't you never find it a little 'eating?"

"Say tea then," said Herbert, pouring it out

Here Joe's hat tumbled off the mantel-piece, and he started out of his

chair and picked it up, and fitted it to the saood breeding that it should tuery?"

"Were it yesterday afternoon?" said Joe, after coughing behind his hand,