"'And now,' said the former beggar, 'leave my house at once, with
your wife--you coward! you cur! You robbed my father, and then
cheated me when I was a spendthrift. Begone, and may your name be
accursed in the land!'

"And the son turned all out except his three friends.

"In a few months he married the daughter of one of his friends; but
he never gambled again, only entertaining his three friends and
their families, who came and went as they liked.

"And from that day John o' Scales was called John o' Groats."




EVA'S LUCK.

As black-eyed, black-haired Eva Sauvet was walking one day in Jersey
she saw a lozenge-marked snake, whereupon she ran away frightened.

When she got home and told her mother, the old woman said:

"Well, child, next time you see the snake give it your
handkerchief."

The next day Eva went out with beating heart, and ere long she saw
the snake come gliding out from the bushes, so she threw down her
handkerchief, for she was too frightened to hand it to the snake.