has for its refrain these i to think original lines tie ho for the merry merry merry blue and the black black draught in the these flights of fun were merely indications that mr s mind was disturbed just as serious people under like conditions pitch into their poor relations or passionate persons indulge in bad language his behavior under the solemn circumstances was it must be understood perfectly but it requires a very dull man indeed to be sombre throughout the funeral of any one not personally dear to him as they are performed in this enlightened land the the the horses the are no doubt designed � first to swell the s bill and secondly to make the idea of death as much like a nightmare as possible but human nature the hideous oppression and sometimes breaks out in what we may call the contrary direction in scotland as is well known are the chief public amusements and it is said of a young man that he goes about a good deal to just in the same sense that we his music halls and i it was impossible that a man like who had been a for twenty years and had rejected all of friendship from his neighbors should draw tears from them over his remains the contents of his will on the other hand commanded their attention every one was surprised to find how comparatively poor he had died for though allowed to have been of a generous disposition it was thought that he must have saved money during his long seclusion what there was however was left to my son richard absolutely the very considerable estate of tower and about fifteen thousand pounds the family lawyer and mr being appointed for the lad � an office that was almost a since in a few months he would attain his majority what on earth could have done with bis money was the question that every one put to his neighbor when these facts were made known he was not such a saint after all perhaps whispered one to the squire of he must have had some private expenses not a bit of it answered old pole he has been paying off his � a way of away ready money for which the speaker s tone evinced his profound contempt his observation however was a shrewd one and to some extent correct when succeeded to the family estate he had had to pay large sums borrowed at interest upon his expectations he had now left it free and to his son with one � not in the body of the will but in a found within it for richard s private eye � namely that he should pay four hundred pounds a year to charles de whatever was the general opinion the heir when his grief permitted him to think of such matters which was not until days afterward was more than satisfied with what had to him it seemed to him an ample fortune and then but for his s generous behavior he would have been i he would have acknowledged as much again and again to her if she would have permitted him but her grave pained face forbade it she smiled indeed as she repeated her old jf e you are welcome my dear boy but it was plain the subject was distressing to her he thought this was on account of his father s behavior in the matter which was certainly open to the censure but that was not the case had not only frankly accepted her brother s excuse for his conduct but fully believed in the motives he had attributed to it she knew to what religious would carry even scrupulous men in her pocket was a letter from her spiritual adviser the rev to whom she confessed everything as in duty bound her in th strongest terms for having in a moment of weakness destroyed her father s will she had not informed him � for she did stop somewhere even in obedience to the of the fact of its having been so long concealed from her but had led him to conclude that the document had been quite recently discovered you are flattered no doubt he wrote at having made a e to but i must needs tell you it was not at your own expense but at that of our holy cause you have placed the fortune that would have supported it and been the means of saving souls in the hands of one who will lose his own soul in the money on unworthy objects if you felt your weakness as you acknowledge at the very time you made this false step why did you not at least wait for my advice your punishment will be to see the fruits of this ill judged generosity and indeed poor sister already saw in her mind s eye on the one hand certain excellent institutions for the advancement of true religion for want of funds and on the other the career of a mr s letter contained as well as reproof and even some practical suggestions could she not appeal it hinted to a young man s sense of right not as yet perhaps utterly obscured by evil courses and get something back out of the fire no she could not what she had given she had given the rev knew as he fancied his fair penitent thoroughly but she was different from many of those he had in a far higher rank of ufe in being that � even than a true gentleman � a true her feelings of delicacy generosity and tenderness could resist even authority in a case of this kind and they did resist it if father could have spoken to her in person matters might perhaps have gone better for him but a to the tower at such a time would indeed have been it 