The blacksmith is a high officer in our little state, nothing less than a constable; but alas, alas!

No high, ennobling ancestry is thine; From a vile stock thy bold career began, A Blacksmith was thy sire of Isfahán.

But the young Blacksmith's being a Gentleman was, methought, what created him good Will from his present Equality with the Mob about him: Add to this, that he was not so much a Gentleman, as not, at the same time that he called himself such, to use as rough Methods for his Defence as his Antagonist.

The deductions were easily verifiedboth the storekeeper and the blacksmith were married men!

The blacksmith was emphatically a gossip, as well as a hardworking, God-fearing man.

The old blacksmith is a veteran of 1870, and was for a long time a prisoner at Konigsburg.