Jeekie great rascal and therefore have Savings Bank account--go on, Major." "Well, Jeekie, because if you are a rascal you are kind-hearted and because I believe that you care for me----" "Oh! Major," broke in Jeekie again, "that most 'utterably true.

Honour bright I love you, Major, better than anyone on earth, except my late old woman, now happily dead, gone and forgotten in best oak coffin, L4 10 without fittings but polished, and perhaps your holy uncle, Reverend Mr.Austin, also coffined and departed, who saved me from early extinction in a dark place.

Major, I no like graves, I see too much of them, and can't tell what lie on other side.

Though everyone say they know, Jeekie not quite sure.

May be all light and crowns of glory, may be damp black hole and no way out.