"By the bye, I got a new butterfly to-day; rather an event, mind you, here, where there are so few." "What is he ?" "An Hipparchia," said the Doctor, "Sam saw him first and gave chase." "You seem to be making quite a naturalist of my boy, Doctor.

I am sincerely obliged to you.

If we can make him take to that sort of thing it may keep him out of much mischief." "He will never get into much," said the Doctor, "unless I am mistaken; he is the most docile child I ever came across.

It is a pleasure to be with him.

What are you going to do with him ?" "He must go to school, I am afraid," said the Major with a sigh, "I can't bring my heart to part with him; but his mother has taught him all she knows, so I suppose he must go to school and fight, and get flogged, and come home with a pipe in his mouth, and an oath on his lips, with his education completed.