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 water he can find; his body seeming to have the same characteristic as his mind, when hard questions are to be dealt with. And as one neighbor tersely put it: "A duck has very hard work to pass Judge Carter," which is not bad shooting for a man over seventy, and looking to have at least ten good years in him yet.

And of a body to match his big brain. His father, tall, stalwart, of commanding presence, resembled Daniel Webster more in figure, carriage, and bearing than,