I lea' them to the doctors an' the ministers," replied Jeames, with another wide, silent laugh.
By this time he had got a pair of scales carefully adjusted, a small tin vessel in one of them, and balancing weights in the other.

Then he went to the rack over the dresser, and mildly lamenting his wife's absence and his own inability to lay his hand on the precise vessels he wanted, brought thence a dish and a basin.

The dish he placed on the table with the basin in it and filled the latter with water to the very brim.

He then took the horse, placed it gently in the basin, which was large enough to receive it entirely, and set basin and horse aside.

Taking then the'dish into which the water had overflowed, he poured its contents into the tin vessel in the one scale, and added weights to the opposite until they balanced each other, upon which he made a note with a piece of chalk on the table.