14 LOTHARIO. 



Now, this man had attained as great a 

 notoriety, as a professional, as my friend 

 Monops, as much for being a first-rate 

 workman as for a dashing devil-me-care 

 sort of bearing, that caused him to be a great 

 favourite on the road, indeed quite a pet 

 with the amateurs, and an idol with the 

 undergraduates. 



Jack was a smart looking fellow when 

 young, and, by means that it would be in 

 vain for me to attempt to describe, had 

 made sad inroads in the affections of the 

 females who officiated at the houses where 

 he daily took his refreshment; and it was 

 one of these, it proved afterwards, I had 

 taken for Mrs. H. indeed she really was so, 

 although the one I had been introduced to 

 by Monops had a prior claim on the hand 

 and heart of this Lothario. 



A day or two afterwards, on my follow- 

 ing journey down, I was induced from 

 curiosity to ask the lady if what I had heard 

 from our friend was true. She replied in 



