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DICK MEETS HIS FATHER.
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her birdcage? Turk seize it all, what's that got to do wi' it? Dick, that thou beest a white-lyvered chap I don't say, but if though beestn't as mad as a cappel-faced bull, let me smile no more.'

'O, ay.'

'And what's think now, Dick?'

'I don't know.'

'Here's another pretty kettle o' fish for thee. Who d'ye think's the bitter weed in our being turned out? Did our party tell'ee?'

'No. Why, Pa'son Maybold, I suppose.'

'Shinar,—because he's in love with thy young woman, and d'want to see her young figure sitting up at that quare instrume't, and her young fingers rum-strumming upon the keys.'

A sharp ado of sweet and bitter was going on in Dick during this communication from his father. 'Shinar's a fool!—no, that's not it; I don't believe any such thing,

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