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Character& Nv Hat Is A " Character ".1 It Is "

a picture (reall or per- sonall) quaintly drawne, in various colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing," or, to put it still more delicately, a character is "a quicke and......

Cats On Board Ship.

M ANY stories are current about the peculiar aPtitude possessed by sailors of taming all sorts of wild creatures that chance to come under their care, most of them having a much......