F. O. Langley

“ My wife never draws any at all, knowing it is much safer where it is, and as for Albert, our only son, he takes no interest in the stuff. When we, in moments of self-denial, slip a coin into the slit of his money-box, he is merely bored, being as yet unable to unlock the box and get the coin out again, owing to ignorance of the whereabouts of the key. I explained all this to the telegraph boy, but his heart didn't soften ”

“ You will recollect that I compensated him for the loss of it with a shilling. It makes it all the more pognant that it was my last shilling. I put it into his money-box, the key of which is accessible to miscreants. ”

“ The tooth, as teeth will, had to be removed; the parents, as parents may, advanced a shilling upon it; and the godfather, as godfathers needn't, telegraphed to say he was coming forthwith to the locus in quo. Things were so when Mr. (I didn't catch your name, Sir," and I turned to the telegraph boy) "threatened to liquidate us unless his debt was satisfied. Business is, as he very properly remarked, business. Now for my suggestion: Albert," and I turned to him again, "will have the telegram, which being from his god-father, is rightly his. ”