You are growing too masterful altogether, and have none of the quiet demeanour and peaceful air which becomes an honest citizen.

In another six months you will be apprenticed, and then I hope we shall hear no more of these doings." "My father is talking of apprenticing me, Master Geoffrey," Walter said that evening.

"I hope that you will, as you were good enough to promise, talk with him about apprenticing me to your craft rather than to his.

I should never take to the making of bows, though, indeed, I like well to use them; and Will Parker, who is teaching me says that I show rare promise; but it would never be to my taste to stand all day sawing, and smoothing, and polishing.

One bow is to me much like another, though my father holds that there are rare differences between them; but it is a nobler craft to work on iron, and next to using arms the most pleasant thing surely is to make them.