“Yes, I see how it was, Robert—just as my father says—you take ‘a little drop’ and then you want a good many more drops.” : “Oh! Master James, you are just like your father, and his advice is always so good. But could ye not speak a word with your father for me?” “Why don't you go and speak with him yourself?” “T am afraid he wouldn't listen to me; but how could he refuse a fine lad like | yourself, and his own son, too. You could tell him that you saw me when I came home, and I was as sober as a judge, and that I stopped to get a shoe put on the horse, and so it made me late. Now, that’s a good lad.” “No, Robert; I will try to get father to excise you, bus 1 camt tell iim what ts not true. | “Long life to ye, Master James; long life fo ye!