"Dry by to-morrow.

You were quite right to tell me." Then there was a pause.
"How many apples does that make you've had to-day ?" he said, suddenly.
"Apples, sir?
Oh! that was the first." "Humph!" he ejaculated, looking at me sharply.

"And so you've been having a set-to with Shock, eh ?" "Yes, sir," I said in an aggrieved tone; "he--" "Don't tell tales out of school, Grant," he said.

"You've had your fight, and have come off better than I expected.

Don't let's have any more of it, if you can help it.