It turned out that he was in the habit of thoroughly warming the book and then of putting it in the bed before he got in himself, so that it would serve the function of a warming-pan.

The young gentleman turned out in after life to be a very distinguished Bishop himself, an eminent champion of the doctrines of the Episcopal Church, which he had doubtless acquired by absorption.
The boys were always ready for mischief and always kind and easily moved to sympathy.

One day just before prayers there was found on the square in front of Willard's Hotel a large load of straw.

The owner had stopped and unhitched his horses to feed them at Willard's stable.

Some mischievous boy set fire to the load and it burned with a blaze which illuminated the whole neighborhood.