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"Finished?" Dr Lavendar asked

"No, sir," David said sadly, and started in with a spurt; but the

mound did not seem to diminish, and suddenly his chin quivered "If

you have to pay for what I don't eat, I'll try," he said; "but my

breast is cold" Reassured on this point, and furtively rubbing his

little chilly stomach, David put down his spoon and slipped out of his

chair, ready to ician!

"I don't knohat Mrs Richie will say to et to bed before ten o'clock!"

"She'll say 'all right,'" said David Then he added, "The gentleman at

dinner tells lies, or else he's foolish It wouldto his of triumph,-did not hear the morals of his bishop aspersed He took David's hand,

and by and by they were sitting staring open-s in a pan, and held it over a fire, and took out live pigeons! Oh,

yes, and many other wonders! David never spoke once on his way back to

the hotel, and Dr Lavendar began to be worried for fear the child was