Alone!--why, thou'rt always here; and now there's the little lass as well.

Lonesome!--they don't know thee, Lord, and they don't know me.

Thou'rt here, with the little lass and me.

Yes, yes,--yes." He murmured the word "yes" in a tone of contentment over and over again, until, the pipe being finished, he prepared for sleep also.

But no sleep came to the old man.