'My girls, you know, practise four hours a day, you know--must do it, you know--absolutely necessary.

As for me, you know I'm an early man, and in my farm every morning at five--no, no laziness for ME.' The facts are these.

Ponto goes to sleep directly after dinner on entering the drawing-room, and wakes up when the ladies leave off practice at ten.

From seven till ten, from ten till five, is a very fair allowance of slumber for a man who says he's NOT a lazy man.

It is my private opinion that when Ponto retires to what is called his 'Study,' he sleeps too.