"I particularly ordered that they are to be made easy and comfortable, larger, indeed, than you absolutely require, but we must allow for growing, and two years may make a difference of some inches to you.

Now, we have only to go to a bootmaker's and then we have done." When the orders were completed they separated, as Mr.Goodenough was going down that afternoon to the country, and was not to return until the day preceding that on which they were to sail.

That evening Frank had a long chat with his two friends, and was much pleased when the old naturalist, who had taken a great fancy to the honest porter, offered him the use of a room at his house, saying that he should be more than paid by the pleasure of his company of an evening.

The offer was accepted, and Frank was glad to think that his two friends would be sitting smoking their pipes together of an evening instead of being in their solitary rooms.

The next day he took up his residence in Eaton square..