"If there's any rule that good men should get over these skinnygs,I'm sure he will, my boy; he's the best man I know.I'll look in early to-morrow."

Early next morning he was there.

"Well?" said he.

"Father is better," exclaimed Harry. "Mother hopes he will get over it."

"Thank God!" said the governor, "and now you must keep him warm,and keep his mind easy, and that brings me to the horses;you see Jack will be all the better for the rest of a month or twoin a warm stable, and you can easily take him a turn up and down the streetto stretch his legs; but this young one, if he does not get work,he will soon be all up on end, as you may say, and will be rather too muchfor you; and when he does go out there'll be an accident."