That boy, my good sir, would break his neck with pleasure, and deprive his parents of their chief comfort--and between ourselves, when you come to see him at hare and hounds, taking the fence and ditch by the finger-post, and sliding down the face of the little quarry, you'll never forget it.
It's beautiful!' John Owen having been thus rebuked, and being in perfect possession of the speech aside, the bachelor singled out another boy.
'Now, look at that lad, sir,' said the bachelor.

'You see that fellow?
Richard Evans his name is, sir.

An amazing boy to learn, blessed with a good memory, and a ready understanding, and moreover with a good voice and ear for psalm-singing, in which he is the best among us.
Yet, sir, that boy will come to a bad end; he'll never die in his bed; he's always falling asleep in sermon-time--and to tell you the truth, Mr Marton, I always did the same at his age, and feel quite certain that it was natural to my constitution and I couldn't help it.' This hopeful pupil edified by the above terrible reproval, the bachelor turned to another.
'But if we talk of examples to be shunned,' said he, 'if we come to boys that should be a warning and a beacon to all their fellows, here's the one, and I hope you won't spare him.

This is the lad, sir; this one with the blue eyes and light hair.

This is a swimmer, sir, this fellow--a diver, Lord save us! This is a boy, sir, who had a fancy for plunging into eighteen feet of water, with his clothes on, and bringing up a blind man's dog, who was being drowned by the weight of his chain and collar, while his master stood wringing his hands upon the bank, bewailing the loss of his guide and friend.