78 WINTER TALKS ON SUMMER PASTIMES. 



driving at. You know only too well how you always fasci- 

 nate me when you draw your long bow, and you know just 

 as well that my time is up ; and yet you are deliberately and 

 with coldly concocted malice, trying to beguile me into for- 

 getfulness and thereby subject me to a 'curtain lecture* when 

 I get home. But you can't play any such practical joke on 

 me any more then you could humbug me by telling me I 

 was hitched to a log when I felt the twitch of a salmon. 

 So, 'go to' old man, and good night to all of you." 



