And not six months after, the other girl had the 'sipelas, and she died, and just as they was carrying her coffin out of the house, who should come up but her father! He'd been away for nearly two years, just sending a little money now and then, and he didn't even know the girl had been ailing.

And when he saw the coffin, it took him so that he fell down just like a dead man.

You wouldn't have thought it, but there's no knowing what goes on in people's minds.

Well, if you'll believe it, from that day he was so changed we didn't seem to know him.

He turned quite religious, and went regular to chapel, and has done ever since; and he wouldn't touch a drop of anything, tempt him who might.