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86 leg maimed or missing : this remark may have suggested the sketch. The action of the boat- man with the wooden leg is admirable as he stumps down hill ; note also the sly touch of another wooden-legged man behind him calling at

the bootmaker’s. Our landlord, Herlock, Walker immortalised in another sketch ; an active, wiry, hatchet-faced little man, with the full complement of limbs. His usual salutation when I came down before breakfast was “ Maarnin, Zur — a smart