His horse's shoes required an alteration, in consequence of the fresh weather having decidedly commenced.

The lady of the house where he was a visitor chose to indulge in her own room till a very late breakfast hour.

His friend also insisted on showing him a litter of puppies which his favourite pointer bitch had produced that morning.

The colours had occasioned some doubts about the paternity--a weighty question of legitimacy, to the decision of which Hazlewood's opinion was called in as arbiter between his friend and his groom, and which inferred in its consequences which of the litter should be drowned, which saved.

Besides, the Laird himself delayed our young lover's departure for a considerable time, endeavouring, with long and superfluous rhetoric, to insinuate to Sir Robert Hazlewood, through the medium of his son, his own particular ideas respecting the line of a meditated turnpike road.