Suppose you buy a collar for him--you can get one for five shillings." They found a saddler's and chose the dog-collar which came to four shillings; and for eighteenpence the shopman agreed to have "_Honoria from Taffy_," engraved on it within an hour.

Humility's present was chosen with surprising ease--a large, framed photograph of the Bishop of Exeter; price, six shillings.
"I don't suppose," objected George, "your mother cares much for the Bishop of Exeter." "Oh, yes, she does," said Taffy; "he's coming to confirm us next spring.

Besides," he added, with one of those flashes of wisdom which surely he derived from her, "mother won't care what it is, so long as she's remembered.

And it costs more than the collar." This left him with eight-and-sixpence; and for three-and-sixpence he bought a work-box for his grandmother, with a view of Plymouth Hoe on the lid.

But now came the crux.