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who sported a comical conical hat! "That all the world knows. We are going to tie up as soon as I've passed."

Julia smiled and retreated again.

The students now entered into an animated discussion upon a point to which, in the course of the lecture, particular reference had been made, and when Sylvester found that they were much too intent upon the subject to notice him, he made a signal for Julia to approach.

"Now," said he, "you must perform your promise by accepting these from me."

Julia took the bracelets, placed them in her bosom, and pressed them to her heart, and having taken his hand with a fervent expression, exclaimed, "God bless you!"

Tom, although apparently engaged in the discussion, saw all that passed, and shortly afterwards expressed himself precisely to this effect: "Dow, by boy, tibe's up, we bust bizzle—are you ready?"

"Quite," returned Sylvester; "quite."

"Thed we'll be off. Good dight!" he added, addressing the students; "I shall see you to-borrow."

"To-borrow bordidg," said Bob Topps, "or to-borrow dight, Tob?"

Hereupon there was a laugh—a loud laugh—among the students, and during its continuance, Sylvester shook hands with Julia, who was in consequence overjoyed, and having said, "Good night!" left the house with Tom.

"I'll tell you what it is," said Tom, "that girl's id love with you. Dothidg cad be clearer thad that. But it wod't do, Syl. Doe, that'll dever do."

"What will never do?"

"Why, it'll dever do for you to be caught, Syl, id that trap."

"Caught in that trap!" echoed Sylvester. "There's an end of it. I have accepted a present from her, and she has accepted a present from me—that settles it."

"Yes, by boy, that settles it certaidly as far as it goes; but if you codtidue to go there, by boy, you'll cause her to believe that you are desperately id love with her."

"Well, then, I had better go there no more."

"Why doe bad has a right to cause a girl to believe that he's id love with her udless he intedds to barry her.

"Very true: and as of course I have no such intention, I had better not go there again."

"Why I should say," observed Tom, "that you'd fly at a little higher gabe thad a barbaid."

"I have no contempt for her because she is a barmaid. That which you told me last night, Tom, convinced me that she ought now to be in a better position. I would not trifle with the feelings of such a girl; I would not raise hopes which could never be realised. I am sorry now that I went there at all; but the matter is settled: I go there no more."

"She's ad artful card do doubt," said Tom, "add if you give her a chadce she bay addoy you, which wouldd't be pleasadt: it wouldd't for idstadce be pleasadt at all were she to cobe sobe fide bordidg to have a chat with the old ladies! 'Where do you live, dear?' by bother would