The note was shown to this individual, who pronounced it a forgery, it being exactly similar to those for which the young man had been in trouble, and which he had seen.

My father, however, being supposed a respectable man, because he was dressed as a Quaker--the very reason, by the-bye, why anybody who knew aught of the Quakers would have suspected him to be a rogue--would have been let go, had I not made my appearance, dressed as his footboy.

The friend of the young man looked at my eye, and seized hold of my father, who made a desperate resistance, I assisting him, as in duty bound.

Being, however, overpowered by numbers, he bade me by a look, and a word or two in Latin, to make myself scarce.

Though my heart was fit to break, I obeyed my father, who was speedily committed.