"Said he'd rather have a thousand apple trees?"
"No, no, no; said he'd rather lose a thousand apple trees than—"
"Said he'd rather George would?"
"No, said he'd rather he would than have him lie."
"Oh, George would rather have his father lie?"
We are patient and we love children, but if Mrs. Caruthers hadn't come and got her prodigy at that critical juncture, we don't believe all Burlington could have pulled us out of the snarl.
And as Clarence Alençon de Marchemont Caruthers pattered down the stairs, we heard him telling his ma about a boy who had a father named George, and he told him to cut down an apple tree, and he said he'd rather tell a thousand lies than cut down one apple tree.
THE LOSS OF THE "BIRKENHEAD."
(February 25, 1852.)