121

“Wonderful late,” says my uncle.

“No,” said I; “not late for windy nights.”

“Too late for lads,” says he, uneasily.

I poured his glass of rum.

“Think you, Dannie,” my uncle inquired, “that he’ve the makin’s of a fair rascal?”

“An’ who?” says I, the stranger in mind.

“The tutor.”

“I’m hopin’ not!” I cried.

“Ay,” says my uncle, an eye half closed; “but think you he would make a rascal––with clever management?”