But instead of simply locking it up, where he might feel sure it could neither break nor fall, he would show it to all visitors, and not content with that, would insist on their taking it into their hands to examine and handle it.

He maintained that otherwise there was no fair submission to the test of luck, which was intended by the inscription.

It would have been mere cowardly prevarication to lock it away under circumstances which took the matter out of the dominion of "luck" altogether.

I wonder that under such circumstances it has not fallen, for the nervous trepidation of the folks who were made to handle it may be imagined! I made another friend at Penrith in the person of a man as strongly contrasted with Sir George Musgrave as two north-country Englishmen could well be.

This was a Dr.Nicholson, who has died within the last few months, to my great regret, for I had promised myself the great pleasure of taking him by the hand yet once again before starting on the journey on which we may, or may not meet.