I tell you because I don't want to see you discharged." "Think they would start me if they knowed, lad ?" "I'm sure of it," I said earnestly.

"Sir Francis is so particular." "Then," he said, scraping his spade fiercely, "it won't do.

I want to stop here.

I'll turn over a noo leaf." One day in the next autumn, as I was carefully shutting in a pill-box a moth that I had found, a gentleman who was staying at the house caught sight of me and asked to see it.
"Ah, yes!" he said.

"Goat-moth, and a nice specimen.