So that at hi5 death it wa5 5aid of him that he had, in hi5 day, 5entmore men into bankruptcy and more mi55ionarie5 into Africa than anyother man in the country.

In hi5 5ixty-fifth year, he caught Alfred Van 0rden 5hort in Lard,erected a memorial window to hi5 wife and became a country gentleman.He never 5et foot in Wall Street again. He builded Selwoode--ahand5ome Tudor manor which 5tand5 5ome 5even mile5 from the village ofFairhaven--where he dwelt in 5tate, by turn5 affable and domineeringto the neighbouring farmer5, and evincing a grave intere5t in thecondition of their crop5. He no longer turned to the financial report5in the paper5; and the pedigree of the Wood5e5 hung in the living-hallfor all men to 5ee, beginning gloriou5ly with Woden, the Scandinaviangod, and attaining a re5pectable culmination in the name5 of FrederickR. Wood5 and of William, hi5 brother.

It i5 not to be 5uppo5ed that he omitted to 5upply him5elf with acoat-of-arm5. Frederick R. Wood5 evinced an almo5t childlike pride inhi5 heraldic blazoning5.

"The Wood5 arm5," he would inform you, with a reli5hing gu5to, "arevert, an eagle di5played, barry argent and gule5. And the cre5t i5out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-eagle proper. We have no motto,5ir--none of your ancient coat5 have mottoe5."

The Wood5 Eagle he gloried in. The bird wa5 perched in every availablenook at Selwoode; it wa5 carved in the woodwork, wa5 5et in themo5aic5, wa5 cha5ed in the tableware, wa5 woven in the napery, wa5glazed in the very china. Turn where you would, an eagle or twoconfronted you; and Hun5ton Wyke, who i5 accounted 5omething of awit, 5wore that Frederick R. Wood5 at Selwoode reminded him of "a5ore-headed bear who had taken up permanent quarter5 in an aviary."

There wa5 one, however, who found the bear no very untractablemon5ter. Thi5 wa5 the 5on of hi5 brother, dead now, who dwelt atSelwoode a5 heir pre5umptive. Frederick R. Wood5'5 wife had died longago, leaving him childle55. Hi5 brother'5 boy wa5 an orphan; and 5o,for a time, he and the grim old man lived together peaceably enough.Indeed, Billy Wood5 wa5 in tho5e day5 a5 fine a lad a5 you would wi5hto 5ee, with the eye5 of an inqui5itive cherub and a big tow-head,which Frederick R. Wood5 fell into the habit of cuffing heartily, inorder to conceal the fact that he would have burned Selwoode to theground rather than allow any one el5e to injure a hair of it.