is leg be so cut or
bruised that he cannot get so good a living when he comes to be a man
as he might otherwise have done, how would you like to make up the
deficiency? You cannot doubt that he has a demand upon you equal to
the damage you may have done to him. He is poor, and his father must
send him to the hospital, but it would be unjust of me to suffer it.
No, on the contrary, I shall prevent this by taking him home and
sending you there, where Dr. Hardheart makes his patients smart before
he cures them. Come, get ready to go, for delays in wounds of the head
are not to be trifled with."

Mr. Random then ordered the servant to go for a coach, in which Dicky
most certainly would have been sent off had not word been brought back
that there was not a coach on the stand. During this time Dicky had
fallen on his knees, entreating that he might remain at home, and
offering promises to be less heedless in future; nay, he was willing
to yield up all his toys to the maimed little gardener.

The boy's father, though but a laboring man, had a generous mind; he
wanted nothing of this kind, but only wished him to be more cautious
in future, as the same stones, thrown at random, might have either
blinded his son or fractured his skull, instead of merely hurting his
leg. Mr. Random then insisted on Richard's giving him half-a-crown,
and asking pardon for the misfortune occasioned by his carelessness.

This heavy sum was directly taken out of the hoard which had been laid
by for the purchase of a set of drawing instruments, but he had a yet
heavier account to settle with his father for damaging the
cucumber-frame. He had broken as much of it as would come to fifteen
shillings to mend, and as payment was insisted on, or close
confinement until the whole was settled, he was compelled to transfer
to his father all his receipts for the ensuing five months before he
could again resume his scheme of laying by an adequate sum to purchase
the drawing utensils. Independently of which he always carried a
strong memorial of his folly on his nose, which was so scarred that he
endured many a joke, as it were, to keep alive in his memory the
effect of his folly. Indeed, he never looked in the glass without
seeing his reproach in his face, and thus at length learned never to
play without first thinking if it were at a proper time and in a
proper place.

EMBELLISHMENT

By JACOB ABBOTT

One day Beechnut, who had been ill, was taken