OHAPTEE XXV. 



WESTERN CHARACTER TROTTING IN SNOW DIRECTIONS FOR 

 WATERING. 



PRECEPTOR. Good day, scholar. You will perceive I 

 have dropped in in time for dinner, which, I am free to 

 acknowledge, will come very acceptable. I have "occasion," 

 and shall do justice to the good cheer your hostess always 

 prepares for us. I will also admit that the "pleasures of 

 hope" are likely to be fully realized, as I anticipated 

 "blowing a cloud" with you, for I find no other cigars the 

 equals of those Principes. 



PUPIL. I am delighted to see you, and better pleased 

 that you have timed your visit just as you have, when we 

 can have a good talk without being interrupted with the 

 driving. Please to step into my room, as I have another 

 evidence of Western liberality to show you. 



PRECEPTOR. True enough, you have a goodly "lay out," 

 and I would suppose, from the exhibition of this 

 paraphernalia, that you have foregone your strict tem- 

 perance principles, and become a votary of the vine-clad, 

 jolly god, as well as a disciple of the Indian weed. 



PUPIL. I have no intention of indulging in any of these 

 enticements, and my vow of strict total abstinence from 

 spirits, wine, or beer, is no more likely to be broken than 

 if this nectar were a hundred miles off. But test it, fill 

 up a bumper of what you like the best ; I will warrant it 



