What a happy thing it was toohere the smile of pleasure illuminated Mr. Taynton's face againthat the boy whom he had dismissed two years before for some petty pilfering in his own house, should have turned out such a promising lad and should have found his way to so pleasant a berth as that of factotum to Morris.

I conjured up visions of interminable rows of huts, of thousands of overalled workers swamping Plough Lane, trampling the Green brown, scaring the geese, obliterating the immemorial shape of Leg-o'-Mutton Common by a mushroom township, laying Down Wood low, and coming to me with some miserable tale of petty pilfering for my adjustment.

For the pilferings from Bishop Hall, at any rate, no shadow of excuse can, so far as I can see, be alleged.

A former civil officer named Van Dyck had a very fine peach orchard which caused him no little annoyance on account of the constant pilfering of the Indians.

She play'd, the Muses from their hill, Marvell'd who thus had stole their skill; Apollo's wit was next her prey, Her next the beam that lights the day; While Jove her pilferings to crown, Pronounc'd these beauties all her own; Pardon'd her crimes, and prais'd her art, And t'other day she stolemy heart.