appetite, which may, and often does, entail hours--ay,

sometimes months--of exceeding discomfort; but we

would not for a moment presume to suggest such a

question to him. We have a distinct objection to the

ordinary method of what is called "drawing a moral."

It is much better to leave wise men to do this for

themselves.

Next morning Dick rose with the sun, and started

without breakfast, preferring to take his chance of finding

a bird or animal of some kind before long, to feeding