again."

"Continue to bathe them with the vinegar and water, Mr Easy, until I
send you an embrocation, which will give you immediate relief. I will
call tomorrow. By-the-bye, I am to see a little patient at Mr
Bonnycastle's: if it is any accommodation, I will take your son with
me."

"It will be a great accommodation, doctor," replied Mr Easy.

"Then, my dear sir, I will just go up and see how Mrs Easy is, and
to-morrow I will call at ten. I can wait an hour. Good-night."

"Good-night, doctor."

The doctor had his game to play with Mrs Easy. He magnified her
husband's accident--he magnified his wrath, and advised her by no means
to say one word, until he was well, and more pacified. The next day he
repeated this dose, and, in spite of the ejaculations of Sarah, and the
tears of Mrs Easy, who dared not venture to plead her cause, and the
violent resistance of Master Johnny, who appeared to have a presentiment
of what was to come, our hero was put into Dr Middleton's chariot, and
with the exception of one plate of glass, which he kicked out of the
window with his feet, and for which feat, the doctor, now that he had
him all to himself, boxed his ears till he was nearly blind, he was,
without any further eventful occurrence, carried by the doctor's footman
into the parlour of Mr Bonnycastle.

CHAPTER FIVE.

JACK EASY IS SENT TO A SCHOOL AT WHICH THERE IS NO FLOGGING.

Master Jack had been plumped down in a chair by the doctor's servant,
who, as he quitted him, first looked at his own hands, from which the
blood was drawn in several parts, and then at Master Jack, with his
teeth closed and lips compressed, as much as to say, "If I only dared,
would not I, that's all?" and then walked out of the room, repaired to
the carriage at the front door, when he showed his hands to the
coachman, who looked down from his box in great commiseration, at the
same time fully sharing his fellow-servant's indignation. But we must
repair to the parlour. Dr Middleton ran over a newspaper, while Johnny
sat on the chair all of a heap, looking like a lump of sulks, with his
feet on the upper front bar, and his knees almost up to his nose. He
was a promising pupil, Jack.

Mr Bonnycastle made his appearance--a tall, well-built, handsome, fair
man, with a fine powdered head, dressed in solemn black, and knee
buckles; his linen beautifully clean, and with a peculiar bland
expression of countenance. When he smiled he showed a