His life will, almost certainly, bring him more or less into contact with his fellow-men." "We must expect that." "Therefore, as a mere measure of precaution, it might be as well to instruct him in the use of the small-sword." "I will look after that.

There is nothing I shall enjoy more than teaching him--precaution.

We have now, I think, settled everything--" "By no means." The Doctor put a hand into his tail-pocket, and after some difficulty with the lining pulled out a small book bound in green leather and tied with a green ribbon.

"Here," he announced, "is the first volume of a treatise on education." "Plague take your books! You're as bad as Jemmy, yonder.

I tell you I'll not addle the boy's head with books." "But this treatise has the advantage to be unwritten." Dr.Beckerleg untied the ribbon, and holding out the book, turned over a score of pages.