y moneys and my shirt--I
leafe him, I leafe your house! I vould earn honest living, but--Gott im
himmel! dieu des dieux! all de devils!" he shrieked, mixing up several
of his languages at once, in his violent mental agitation.

"Jacob Menzel!" said I, solemnly, "I little thought I was having to do
with an impostor!"

"If I haf you deceive, I haf myself more dan punish!" was his reply.
"Now I resign de position. I ask for de moneys and de shirt, and I
part!"

Just then my uncle came up, amazed at his new friend's sudden revolt and
flight, and anxious to finish up with his seventh parish. "I vill hear
no more of your six, of your seven,--I know not how many parish!"
screamed the furious little Jew, turning on him.

"What means all this?" said my bewildered uncle.

"I tell you vat means it all!" the vindictive little impostor, tiptoeing
up to him, yelled at his cheek. "I make not vell my affairs in your
country; I vould return to Faderlant; for conwenience I carry dis
pappeer. I come here; I am suppose teaf; I accept de position to be your
companion, for if a man hear, you kill him tead soon vid your book and
your ten, twenty parish! I hear! you kill me! and I go!"

And, having obtained his moneys and his shirt, he went. That is the last
I ever saw of my little Iron-Clad. I remember him with gratitude, for he
did me good service, and he had but one fault, namely, that he was _not_
iron-clad!

As for my uncle, for the first time in his life, I think, he said never
a word, but stalked into the house. Dolly soon came running out to ask
what was the matter; Popworth was actually packing his carpet-bag! I
called Andrew, and ordered him to be in readiness with the buggy to take
the old gentleman over to the railroad.

"What! going?" I cried, as my uncle presently appeared, bearing his book
and his baggage.

"Nephew Frederick!" said he, "after this treatment, can you ask me if am
going?"

"Really," I shouted, "it is not my fault that the fellow proved an
impostor. I employed him with the best of intentions, for your--and
our--good!" "Nephew Frederick," said he, "this is insufferable; you
will regret it! I shall never--NEVER" (as if he had been pronouncing my
doom)--"accept of your hospitalities again!"

He did, however, accept some money which I offered him, and likewise a
seat in the buggy. I watched his departure with joy and terror,--for at
any moment he might relent and stay nor was I at ease in my mind until I