How fared Peter Trimble amid the changes of the suc-
ceeding years ? In the first place, his pimples disappeared.
Nobody knew where they went. , It was only known that
they had been, and were not. As the sun of his married
life arose, they vanished and very probably exhaled. At
any rate, they went away never to return ; and Peter
became a long, lank, feeble man, more or less given in his
later years to rheumatism, which he attributed to getting
up so much nights to look after the children. The Tomson
children he found of vast service to him, when he came to
have a family of his own, for he, like his deceased predeces-
sor, was abundantly blessed with ofispring ; and he did not
regret on the whole, that he had not been able to get rid
of them. Labor upon the farm became at last too severe
for him, and he took to coopering, doing the most of his work
in the house, and thus assisting Esther in taking care of the
family, occasionally drowning their noise with his adze, and
always fdrnishing them with shavings to play with. He
preserved until his dying day his superiority as a cutter of
hair and a sharpener of razors, and in the latter part of his
life, consented to receive a small fee for his services ia those
fields of eflfort.
