The only chance is to make him fall in love, deeply in love, with Miss Stubbard.

He did it with somebody for his Easter week, and became as harmless as a sucking dove, till he found his nymph eating onions raw with a pocketful of boiled limpets.

Maggie Stubbard is too perfect in her style for that.

She is twelve years old, and has lots of hair, and eyes as large as oysters.

I shall introduce Johnny to-morrow, and hope to keep him melancholy all his holidays." "Perhaps it will be for his good," said Faith, "because, without some high ideas, he gets into such dreadful scrapes; and certainly it will be for our good." After making light of young love thus, these girls deserved the shafts of Cupid, in addition to Captain Stubbard's shells.