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an improvement? What did Captain Peabody

say to them?”
" H e didn’t jest like them at first/' replied Job,

continuing his work. '*1 didn't myself, to begin
with, for you know the ship is called after his wife,

and nobody ever see old Mis* Peabody going
round with flowers in her hair; but the captain,

sez he, 'Job, I want to have you make it some­
thin' like what Mis' Peabody was when she was a
young woman, ef you kin,’ sez he. ‘ She was a

most uncommon pretty girl when I went a-courting
in Salsbury.* Well, I was kind of struck with the

idee, and the next day I went to meeting, and I
sot and sot, and kind of studied the old lady's face

all through meetin’-time; and when they stood up
to sing, the choir sang ‘ Amsterdam.’ You know

it's a kind of livening sort of hymn. The old
lady, she kind of brightened up, and it seemed as
if I could see the young face sort of coming out be­

hind the old one. Thinks I, ‘ Job Chippit, you've
got it,’ and when E come home, though it was the

Sabbath day, I couldn’ t hardly keep my hands off
the tools, and the minute the sun was down I went

at it. Then when you come in the next day and