Brother Jacob

his intention to start s

resolution which cost h

iot, there was not one

her youngest-born, Davi

oon, when everybody wa

as so singularly favour

ropriate their mothers

been kindly intended

e third Sunday in Lent;

onal wanderings for the

, had a considerable dr

who went about habituall

nd

then, than for David on

, on the ground that he

ghter Sally had been an

ere at a safe distance,

nd slip them into a sma

he cowboy that he was go

fear of Sunday tramps. D

small thicket and bury

d up under the roots of

ent's difficulty, had uncovered it, and was a

stling towards him with

David, who, as a gent

ally only prepared for

ag gently he let it fall

ning guineas. In the sa

Jacob close upon him, h

prongs were a yard in a

id's. (A learned friend,

hat it was David's guilt

"mens nil conscia sibi" s

ea so valuable, that I obt

ssing his name.) Never

e of mind; for in that ca

kward; whereas he kept h

ead up and down, and sa

er. David's heart was be

ould have been pale; bu

ysed, was stimulated.

ed when he was much fri

r get into danger again!

search of a box of yello

Brigford among other d

eans of conciliating

of Miss Sarah Lunn. Not

poor Jacob, for David

arley-sugar in giving p

g. But an idiot with eq

rth flattering and cajo

h a promptitude equal t

s, lifted the lid, and pe

hich was meant to imply

cob, and seized the opp

would find particularly

was not an intense idio

to choose the good and

f test, and sucked it

s new and complex savour as Caliban at the tast

her, and held out his ha

was not ferocious or nee

nd he left off praying;

rying to look very fond

ed the plan of going to

a consequence, he had

he was certainly a luck

nce should be fonder

he was to be interrup

rt of witness. For the fir

w the advanta

ust his pitchfork into t

in thorough abandonmen

ve lozenges in his mo

narticulate sounds of g

f noticing the guineas,

hand on them, and uncon

sensations of his palate

zenges as not to see th

hem! That was David's b

s guineas; it had been

e allowed to look at th

on high days and holida

to money, this was l

ora

, in an insinuating tone,

u. Run!--make haste!--el

e '

ed the psychology of id

ht upon by imaginative f

saw no necessity for r

shing to lay the found

er's guineas obstructe

move his right hand to draw off the lid of the

utmost address and swif

Ah, no! It's of no use t

t: he is not to be calcu

clutching and throwing;

been so many pebbles,

to scatter them like see

pting or other--prob

descended to Jacob's k

Jacob's dull eyes. David

-another resource hav

imed the innocent Jacob.

terrogative

d, summoning all his in

e took the tin box from

es, returning half of th

own hand. Then he held

acob! The box for the gu

cob's palm i

objectionable to Jaco

ntly as they fell, that h

the box, began to rattle

deposited his reserve o

arth over them. "Look, J

linking, and looked int

e earth, as if in doubtf

, he took them out one

in a loud whisper, "Tell

as in the hole--they'll

mplete, he took a guine

o." Then, as he took the

the lozenge into Jaco

one side, looked first at

laid the box of guineas in the hole with much de

id, and covered it well w

oaxing

ow, Jacob; all for J

e indifferent brother h

ish, stroked David's bes

ed him with an accompa

y which he was accustome

hosen to bite a small mor

vid would have been

to point out to you t

ingenious young man, M

ph of cunning when he h

mind with the flavour of

is a dreadful thing to ma

t of an affectionate dis

bviously a difficult frie

ag