"Come, give it a name, or you'll have to drink another!" "Oh, brandy," I almost shrieked, willing to do anything rather than that.

"I say, Hawkesbury," I said, reproachfully, "I didn't expect you were bringing me to this sort of thing." "It is a shame," he said to me aside.

"I would have stopped it if I could; but don't you see they were eager about their bet, and it was the only way of quieting them.

Never mind." The rest of the afternoon passed away much as it had begun.

After dinner we went down to the river and took a boat, in which Masham and Whipcord lay and slept all the time, while Hawkesbury and I rowed them about.