Now and then, in his zeal to manifest and impart his knowledge, he would forget himself, and stray beyond the prescribed bounds, into the ring,to the lashing resentment of its comptroller, Mr. William Soames; who, after some hints of a practical nature, to "keep back," began laying about him with indiscriminate and unmitigable vivacity,the Peripatetic signifying to his pupil,"My eyes!

"Ugh!" grunted the Indian, nodding his head and holding up three fingersto signify that Tom had had three chances.