FURTHtEE,' experiences OF' MR. STALE. 
;^ress, the article upon which he had set his heart as- 
eventually to become his own. Aft-er a while,.a great- 
row would be raised, as to what had' become of it. 
If the investigation promised to become rather hot, 
and too persevering, he would suddenly, in making 
diligent search in your presence, find it ! and, if you- 
were Mr. Green, you would highly compliment him* 
on his sagacity, and perhaps remark to a neighbour, 
What a first-rate fallow I have ; what a capital serv- 
ant, he always finds everything I lose !” Bntj if, after a 
time, you had'forgotten all about itj or it was not worth 
while making a noise about, your domestic had not forgot=- 
ten it was worth his while, and answered his purposes to 
make no noise about it !, “Boy,, a nice fellow you are : 
found you out clean, in having stolen my favourite 
meerschaum pipe,’’ says the master, very bitterly. 
The boy denies, with much indignation, the charge. 
“ Steal, indeed, master don’t ^ think this^ way 
master know very well, all the clay pipes that come 
from Kandy, when they get old and dirty, are just 
put aside, thrown out, and a, new, clean one taken,., 
and master know very well, I always take these old 
pipes ; master say take, and never angry. There- 
fore when I see the dirty meerschaum pipe lying on 
the book-shelf, I think, too old and black now for 
master, he is done with it, just in the same way as , 
with the old black clay pipes, same as them, I will 
just take and smoke, or master will just throw aw^ay. 
I think master is done with the pipe, therefore take 
to kitchen, never think to steal.” Now, the question 
remains open, whether this boy was most rogue or 
fool ; his argument was sound andTeasonable, but, wc 
think, most of our practical readers will pronounce., 
him to be part of both, not a very deep rogue, con- 
cealing his roguery under an assumed but very super- 
ficial and flimsy cloak of folly. 
Mr. Stale felt perfectly aware that he was fairly let 
in for the results of a mistake, and like many sensi-. 
ble men,, who have found themselves in the same 
position, in matters of much more importance than 
chimneys, as it was perfectly evident he could. not have 
a comfortable stick fire, crackling on the hearth, he 
might manage to have a small charcoal one, which 
would, give out, a comfortable looking red glow, and 
emit little or no smoke, so the boy was duly 
instruet.ed, during his leisure time, if he ever had 
any,, to go out into the clearing, and collect as many 
large lumps of charcoal as he could lay hands on, and 
lay it up' in the back verandah. The boy did 
not feel very sure if he, could find time to attend 
to this order, but would try, only master must give, 
him two coolies to carry the charcoal, and be 
■W.Quid go> with themj and instruct them as to the bes,k 
