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With a favor to ask we review our list of friends, do justice to their

ive their little offenses, and concerning

each in turn, try to arrive at the conclusion that he will be eager to

oblige us, our own eagerness to be obliged being as communicable as

other warmth Still there is always a certain nuer until the others have refused; and it happened

that Fred checked off all his friends but one, on the ground that

applying to the implicitly convinced that

he at least (whatever ht to be free froreeable That he should ever

fall into a thoroughly unpleasant position--wear trousers shrunk with

washing, eat cold mutton, have to walk for want of a horse, or to "duck

under" in any sort of as an absurdity irreconcilable with those

cheerful intuitions implanted in hi looked down upon as wanting funds for small debts

Thus it came to pass that the friend whom he chose to apply to was at

once the poorest and the kindest--namely, Caleb Garth

The Garths were very fond of Fred, as he was of them; for when he and

Rosamond were little ones, and the Garths were better off, the slight

connection between the two fae (the first to Mr Garth's sister, and the second to Mrs

Vincy's) had led to an acquaintance which was carried on between the

children rather than the parents: the children drank tea together out

of their toy teacups, and spent whole days together in play Mary was

a little hoyden, and Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl

in the world,which he had cut

froes of his education he had kept