"But I hope I am too much a man of the world to indulge in any intemperate display of principle." He proved the first clause of his proposition by again filling and emptying his glass.

"Have you a father ?" he asked suddenly.

Hannibal shook his head.

"A mother ?" demanded the judge.
"They both of them done died years and years ago," answered the boy.
"I can't tell you how long back it was, but I reckon I don't know much about it.

I must have been a small child." "Ho--a small child!" cried the judge, laughing.