He was, I forget how many years old when he went to the meeting; just turned of twenty now,--he said.

He made various youthful proposals to me, including a duet under the landlady's daughter's window.

He had just learned a trick, he said, of one of "the boys," of getting a splendid bass out of a door-panel by rubbing it with the palm of his hand.

Offered to sing "The sky is bright," accompanying himself on the front-door, if I would go down and help in the chorus.

Said there never was such a set of fellows as the old boys of the set he has been with.