CHAPTER XIX.
"And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord." "Father," said Tip, as, after having carefully measured out and given him some cough-drops, he sat down for a chat with him before school,--"father, didn't you and Mr.Bailey go to school together when you were boys ?" "Yes," said Mr.Lewis.

"Our fathers lived side by side, and we used to walk more than a mile to school together every morning; we were in the same class, too, and the best scholars in school.

My! times are changed since that day.

My father was considerably better off than his was, and now he's a rich man, and I'm nobody." "Was he such a boy as Will Bailey is--or, I mean, as Will used to be ?" "I don't know much about Will; but I know his father was a sorry scamp, and many's the scrape he got me into.

He took a notion to me.