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"There, you see," said the Doctor, nodding his head towards the retreating figure; "there's a man who in his oay knows the secret of life Most of his days are spent in dreary,with the weather and getting scorched and frozen, and the result is that the sparse enjoyusto He sucks his pipe of an evening with a zest which theabout So, too, the labourer who hoes turnips for one and sixpence the day They know the arduousness of life, which is a lesson we must all learn sooner or later You people who have been coddled and petted must learn it, too; and for you it is harder to learn, but pleasanter in the learning, because you stand above the bare need of things, and have leisure for the adornlers, Lewie, and it is better to wear out than to rust out It is bad to let choice things becoet a proverbial offspring"

The young man had listened attentively, but suddenly he leaned from the seat and with a dexterous twitch of his whip curled it round the leg of a boy of sixteen who stood before a cottage

"Hullo, Jock," he cried "When are you coo and fish the Midburn" The urchin pulled off a ragged cap and grinned with pleasure

"That's the boy you pulled out of the Avelin?" asked the Doctor "I had heard of that perfor"

"It was nothing," said the youngthe ford and the strea pretty deep, and in turning round to stare at me he slipped and was carried down I er"

"And the Black Linn just below," said the Doctor, incredulously "You have got the usualMy horse knew its business--that was all" And he flicked nervously with the whip

A grey house aateway of unhewn stone The dogcart pulled up, and the Doctor scra the rain fro ates, and then with a ry