"I will send you a carpenter who shall refix the shutter, and we offer you our apologies for having been the occasion of the mischief that has happened." The old man did not interrupt the speaker, but, when he had stared at him from head to foot, he said: "You are strong and you speak fairly, and I might like you well enough if you were in other company.

I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails.

Now, you can do nothing more for me, so pack off!" "We are going at once," said the more handsomely dressed visitor in a thin and effeminate voice.

"What can a man do when the boys pelt him with dirt from a safe hiding-place, but take himself off." "Be off, be off," said the person thus described, with a laugh.

"As far off as Samothrace if you like, fat Eulaeus; you can scarcely have forgotten the way there since you advised the king to escape thither with all his treasure.