14 KIT CURIOUS.

 

out another secret, and to reveal the
name by which this man was chris-
tened; for I must be silent on this
point. I'll tell you a good deal about
the man; and, by and by, I mean to
give you some of the strange, and won-
derful, and out-of-the-way tit-bits of
knowledge which I have got from him.
“But’—in the language of the old
Scottish song—

“ But what’s his name, or where’s his hame,

I dinna care to tell.”

So you must be content to get along
with those threads in his history which
I weave for you.