"And how did you get on with this benevolent gentleman ?" he asked.

"After converting your father, did he convert you--with the cake ?" Amelius smiled.

"Do him justice, sir; he didn't trust to the cake.

He waited till we were in sight of the American land--and then he preached me a little sermon, on our arrival, entirely for my own use." "A sermon ?" Mr.Hethcote repeated.

"Very little religion in it, I suspect." "Very little indeed, sir," Amelius answered.