I do not want my boy to be named in the same breath with those boys of Robson's, or young Peterson, or Blame." "But you know I have nothing to do with them, mother," James said indignantly.

"They spend half their time about the public house, and they do say that when Peterson has been out with that lurcher of his, he has been seen coming back with his coat bulged out, and there is often a smell of hare round his father's cottage at supper time.

You know I wouldn't have anything to do with them." "No, Jim, I am sure you would not; but if people mix up your name with theirs it is almost as bad for you as if you had.

Unfortunately, people are too apt not to distinguish between tricks which are really only the outcome of high spirit, and a lack of something better to do, and real vice.

Therefore, Jim, I say, keep yourself from mischief.