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I'm supposed to be educated; but it's the thinnest kind of supposition

I don't fancy they teach youat ested the invalid, leaning on his elbow, and

looking at the boy absently

"Wouldn't run to it," said Dick "Main the

world--sounds as if it were a loaf of bread or an orange I should have

'begun it' long ago if it were The difficulty seein I'--once ine out of an empty meat tin It didn't work very well, and it blew

up and burst the kitchen ; but that's a detail So I' to turn up' in the engineering line I

take in the engineering paper, and answer all the advertise comes of it Quite comfortable? Shall I shake up the pillow,

sir? I kno to do it, for I've seen Nell do 'em for mamma"

"No; thanks, very much I' any trouble, you etof a pen, so leisurely

He brought them and set them on the bed, and Mr Drake Vernon wrote a

letter

"I' for some clothes," he explained "May I trouble you to post

it? Any time will do"