Set a thief to watch a thief.

The company are big rogues, and he tries to be a bigger.

We shall cut through his garden in about three months, just when his cabbages are getting firm, and their value will exceed that of pine-apples.

The surveyor will come down and certify, and the 'damage to crops' will be at least five pounds, when they have no right to sow even mustard and cress, and a saucepan would hold all the victuals on the land." From this I perceived that my host was as full of his speculative schemes as ever; and soon he made the driver of the one-horse fly turn aside from the unfenced road and take the turf.

"Coachman," he cried, "just drive along the railway; you won't have the chance much longer." There was no sod turned yet and no rod set up; but the driver seemed to know what was meant, and took us over the springy turf where once had run the river.