You may have noticed the urchins at their game: a bit of tile, and a variety of compartments to pass it through to the base, hopping.

Or no, Richie, pooh! 'tis an unworthy comparison, this hopscotch.

I mean, laddie, they write in zigzags; and so will you when your heart trumpets in your ear.
Tell her, tell that dear noble good woman--say, we are happy, you and I, and alone, and shall be; and do me the favour--she loves you, my son--address her sometimes--she has been it--call her "mother"; she will like it she deserves--nothing shall supplant her!' He lost his voice.
She sent me three hundred pounds; she must have supposed the occasion pressing.

Thus fortified against paternal improvidence, I expended a hundred in the purchase of a horse, and staked the remainder on him in a match, and was beaten.

Disgusted with the horse, I sold him for half his purchase-money, and with that sum paid a bill to maintain my father's credit in the town.