Said you might have lost your life, going out o' your depth with only one leg to stand on, and that if you'd been drownded I should have had to answer for it before a judge and jury." "What a wicked, abandoned old woman!" cried Austin.

"Only one leg to stand on, indeed!--she hasn't a single leg to stand on when she says such things.

She ought to have gone down on her knees and thanked you for taking such care of me.

But I shall never make anything of her, I'm afraid.

The more I try to educate her the worse she gets." "I shouldn't wonder," replied Lubin sagely.