half as good as you can, if you choose, and then--"

"And then," said I, "I make no doubt you will have great
pleasure '_in throwin' the Lavender again_."




CHAPTER X.

AIMING HIGH.

"What do you intend to do, Squire, with your two youngest
boys?" said Mr. Slick to me to-day, as we were walking
in the Park.

"I design them," I said, "for professions. One I shall
educate for a lawyer, and the other for a clergyman."

"Where?"

"In Nova Scotia."

"Exactly," says he. "It shews your sense; it's the very
place for 'em. It's a fine field for a young man; I don't
know no better one no where in the whole univarsal world.
When I was a boy larnin' to shoot, sais father to me,
one day, 'Sam,' sais he, 'I'll give you a lesson in
gunnin' that's worth knowin'. "_Aim high_," my boy; your
gun naterally settles down a little takin' sight, cause