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CROTCHET CASTLE.
This reverend gentleman, being both learned and jolly, became by degrees an indispensable ornament to the new squire's table. Mr. Crotchet himself was eminently jolly, though by no means eminently learned. In the latter respect he took after the great majority of the sons of his father's land; had a smattering of many things, and a knowledge of none; but possessed the true northern art of making the most of his intellectual harlequin's jacket, by keeping the best patches always bright and prominent.
was forced to proceed to "voies de fait." The curious may see at this day, on the wall of Luther's study, the traces of the ink-bottle which he threw at the devil's head.
