And that other fellow that Peggy tells me has been co'tin' you--Talbot Rutter's boy--he's a wild one, isn't he ?--drunk half the time and fightin' everybody who don't agree with him.

Come pretty nigh endin' young Willits, so they say.

Now I hear he's run away to sea and left all his debts behind.

Talbot turned him neck and heels out of doors when he found it out, so they tell me--and served the scapegrace right.

Don't be in a hurry, child.