276 FRIENDS: 



"Pray, what action was that you al- 

 luded to, in which you say I was 

 counsel I ought to remember it?" 



I briefly recounted the particulars. 



" Oh, I now recollect it perfectly 

 well; and you, I suppose, were the 

 smock-faced boy that obtained so fa- 

 vourable a verdict?" 



I bowed assent; and here, the time 

 being up, my meal and the colloquy 

 ended at the same time. 



Having an estate on the road, he and 

 his family were frequent customers, and 

 we were ever after the best of friends. 



