"Just for fun," replied Dan, in a low voice, and hanging his head.
Thereupon the owner of the sleigh and Judge Wayne held a short consultation, the result of which was that each of the offenders was required to hand over all his pocket-money as a fine, and pass the remainder of the day in the cell Percy had occupied.
"We make your punishment thus light," concluded the judge, "in consequence of the manly way in which you have come forward and acknowledged your fault."
He then proceeded to give Percy an honorable discharge, and from that time forth Mrs. Vance lacked not for friends, nor was her son ever again called a "prig."
As for Ted Harley and Dan Tregwin, after seven hours spent in the station-house, their ideas as to the difference between pure fun and malicious mischief were so distinct that there is no danger of their ever mixing the two up again.
[A LITTLE GIRL'S LIFE IN 1782.]
BY MRS. MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
One hundred years ago a little girl named Mary Butt was living with her parents at the pretty rectory of Stanford on the Terne, in England. She was a bright and beautiful child, and when she grew up she became Mrs. Sherwood, the writer of a great many charming stories for young people.
But nothing that she wrote is so entertaining as the story of her childhood, which, when she was an old lady, she told to please her grandchildren. I wonder how the girls who read this paper would endure the discipline which little Mary submitted to so patiently in 1782.