RICH, FRANK M. The jolly tinker.

He ranks next to the stalwart knight of the eraser, because he has the courage to arrest the endless tinkering of design in order to get something done.

He has a touch of Bunyan, and, like that enthusiastic tinker, hammers away, à la Gitano, whenever he thinks he can thwack the Devil or his man-of-all-work on earththe Pope.

" Whereupon, thinking better to please the churchwoman, he related how, when imprisoned for popping a toad into the soup, he had escaped over the leads, and had beaten a drum outside the barn, during a discourse of the godly tinker, John Bunyan, tramping and rattling so that all thought the troopers were come, and rushed out, tumbling one over the other, while he yelled out his "Ho! ho! ho!" from the haystack where he had hidden.

It is difficult to realize that one work came from an ignorant tinker and the other from a great scholar, both engaged in the same general work.

A man might just as well meet his fate smilin' as trailin' his lip on the ground, for my experiences teaches, dear friends and brothers, that Fate just naturally don't care a wooden-legged tinker's dam.

# Attempts to deal with the difficulty without clear perception of its cause took the form of legislative tinkering and patching.

And if one of these uncomely people has a mind to seek self-culture and philosophy, Plato compares him to a bald little tinker, who has scraped together money, and has got his release from service, and has had a bath, and bought a new coat, and is rigged out like a bridegroom about to marry the daughter of his master who has fallen into poor and helpless estate.

I was feeling energetic, and always liking a little tinkering on my own, I said I would make it myself.

One had nicknamed the other "the melancholy tinker.

Bunyan was a poor, uneducated tinker.

It meant for England the disuse of the turgidities and involutions which had marked the prose of the preachers and moralists of the times of James and Charles I.; scholars and men of letters were arising who would have taken John Bunyan, the unlettered tinker of Bedford, for their model rather than the learned physician Sir Thomas Browne.

"Thy pardon, boy," said the venerable tinker, filling a clay pipe and stretching himself on a lounge.

And if one of these uncomely people has a mind to seek self-culture and philosophy, Plato compares him to a bald little tinker, who has scraped together money, and has got his release from service, and has had a bath, and bought a new coat, and is rigged out like a bridegroom about to marry the daughter of his master who has fallen into poor and helpless estate.

There I was, with Johnson at my piano, like some wayside tinker setting up his cart and working at his trade!