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TWICE TOLD TALES THE VILLAGE UNCLE AN IMAGINARY RETROSPECT By Nathaniel Hawthorne Come! another log upon the hearth. True, our little parlor is comfortable, especially here, where the old man sits in his old arm-chair; but on Thanksgiving night the blaze should dance high up the chimney, and send a shower of sparks into the outer darkness. Toss on an armful of those dry oak chips, the last relics of the Mermaid's knee-