"How? —" said the man.

"You need only look at me to see," said Winthrop.

"Well — I thought —" said his companion, looking at him again
— "Be you a dominie?"

"No."

"Going to be? — Hum! — Get ap! —" said the driver touching up one of his horses.

"What makes you think so?" said Winthrop.

"Can't tell — took a notion. I can mostly tell folks, whether they are one thing or another."

"But you are wrong about me," said Winthrop; "I am neither one thing nor the other."

"I'll be shot if you aint, then," said his friend after taking another look at him. "Ben't you? — You're either a dominie or a lawyer — one of the six."

"I should like to know what you judge from. Are clergymen and lawyers so much alike?"