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"I, therefore, ventured to send hi hi him with

my--ah--needy situation,--which was also very natural, I think"

"Certainly!" said Barnabas, s

"But--would you believe it, my dear fellow, he wrote, or rather,

indited me an epistle, or, I should say, indictad! I'll read it to you, I have it here

so the bedclothes,

to feel and fued

forth a woefully crumpled document which he san to read as follows: MY DEAR HORATIO

"As soon as I saw that' t--i--o,' Bev, I kneas no go Had it

been merely a--c--e I should have nourished hopes, but the 't--i--o'

slew 'em--killed 'em stone dead and preparedwith the Divine Right of

Fathers, and, Bev--I got it Listen:"

Upon reading your long and very eloquent letter, I was surprised

to learn, firstly, that you required money, and secondly to observe

that you co, ("Gives ards the money, you will, I am sure, be amazed, nay astounded,

to learn that you have already exceeded your allowance by soht it was eight") As regards your spelling-("Ah! here he leads again with his left, and gets one in,--low,

Bev, low!") As regards your spelling, as you know, I ads; but it has, hitherto, been universally conceded that the

word "eliin with the letters i-l-l!

"Vanquish" does not need a k "Apathy" is spelled with but one p--

while never before have I beheld "anguish" with a w