So we sent him to bed at the earliest moment, and held a small council upon him.

If you remember you, John, having now taken to smoke (which is a hateful practice), had gone forth grumbling about your bad supper and not taking it as a good lesson.' 'Why, Annie,' I cried, in amazement at this, 'I will never trust you again for a supper.

I thought you were so sorry.' 'And so I was, dear; very sorry.

But still we must do our duty.

And when we came to consider it, Ruth was the cleverest of us all; for she said that surely we must have some man we could trust about the farm to go on a little errand; and then I remembered that old John Fry would do anything for money.' 'Not for money, plaize, miss,' said John Fry, taking a pull at the beer; 'but for the love of your swate face.' 'To be sure, John; with the King's behind it.