Goin' in shaller cracks all over, 's wood's apt to do without it's properly treated beforehand.

Sometimes 'twould crack clean through ef 'twarnt for the ile." In his new position John is apt "to go in shaller cracks all over," unless his feminine trainer has been judicious in the use of lubricants--assuasive and dissuasive.

If handled aright by the owner he, to do him justice, rarely "cracks clean through." "Checking" in this case signifies the lack of the small, sweet courtesies which are the peaceable fruits of the Gospel of Conventionality.

Breeding, good or bad, environs the growing lad, as Wordsworth tells us heaven lies about us in our infancy.

The boy whose mother allows him to lounge into her presence with his cap upon his head, whose sisters wink indulgently at his shirt sleeves in parlor and at table--will don his hat and doff his coat in his wife's sitting-room.