s corner. I hope we shall have you seeing the trees and the
house again, Mr. Warrington; and the boys being at home, mayhap there
will be better sport for you."

"I never want to be happier, sir, than I have been," replied Mr.
Warrington; "and I hope you will let me say, that I feel as if I am
leaving quite old friends behind me."

"The friend at whose house we shall sup to-night hath a son, who is
an old friend of our family, too; and my wife, who is an inveterate
marriage-monger, would have made a match between him and one of my
girls, but that the Colonel hath chosen to fall in love with somebody
else."

"Ah!" sighed Mr. Warrington.

"Other folks have done the same thing. There were brave fellows before
Agamemnon."

"I beg your pardon, sir. Is the gentleman's name--Aga----? I did not
quite gather it," meekly inquired the young traveller.

"No, his name is James Wolfe," cried the Colonel, smiling. "He is a
young fellow still, or what we call so, being scarce thirty years old.
He is the youngest lieutenant-colonel in the army, unless, to be sure,
we except a few scores of our nobility, who take rank before us common
folk."

"Of course of course!" says the Colonel's young companion with true
colonial notions of aristocratic precedence.

"And I have seen him commanding captains, and very brave captains, who
were thirty years his seniors, and who had neither his merit nor his
good fortune. But, lucky as he hath been, no one envies his superiority,
for, indeed, most of us acknowledge that he is our superior. He is
beloved by every man of our old regiment and knows every one of them. He
is a good scholar as well as a consummate soldier, and a master of many
languages."

"Ah, sir!" said Harry Warrington, with a sigh of great humility; "I feel
that I have neglected my own youth sadly; and am come to England but an
ignoramus. Had my dear brother been alive, he would have represented our
name and our colony, too, better than I can do. George was a scholar;
George was a musician; George could talk with the most learned people
in our country, and I make no doubt would have held his own here. Do you
know, sir, I am glad to have come home, and to you especially, if but to
learn how ignorant I am."

"If you know that well, 'tis a great gain already," said the Colonel,
with a smile.

"At home, especially of late, and since we lost my brother, I used to
think myself a mighty fine fellow, and have no doubt that the folks