u to exertion and success.

"I am sorry, truly sorry, that my account at Coutts's is so low,
just now, as to render a payment of your allowance for the present
impossible. I see by my book that I owe you now nine quarters, or 450L.
Depend on it, my dear boy, that they shall be faithfully paid over to
you on the first opportunity.

"By the way, I have enclosed some extracts from the newspapers, which
may interest you: and have received a very strange letter from a Mr.
Blewitt, about a play transaction, which, I suppose, is the case alluded
to in these prints. He says you won 4700L. from one Dawkins: that the
lad paid it; that he, Blewitt, was to go what he calls 'snacks' in the
winning; but that you refused to share the booty. How can you, my dear
boy, quarrel with these vulgar people, or lay yourself in any way open
to their attacks? I have played myself a good deal, and there is no man
living who can accuse me of a doubtful act. You should either have shot
this Blewitt or paid him. Now, as the matter stands, it is too late to
do the former; and, perhaps, it would be Quixotic to perform the latter.
My dearest boy! recollect through life that YOU NEVER CAN AFFORD TO BE
DISHONEST WITH A ROQUE. Four thousand seven hundred pounds was a great
coup, to be sure.

"As you are now in such high feather, can you, dearest Algernon! lend
me five hundred pounds? Upon my soul and honor, I will repay you. Your
brothers and sisters send you their love. I need not add, that you have
always the blessings of your affectionate father,

"CRABS."

"P.S.--Make it 500, and I will give you my note-of-hand for a thousand."

. . . . . .

I needn't say that this did not QUITE enter into Deuceace's eyedears.
Lend his father 500 pound, indeed! He'd as soon have lent him a box on
the year! In the fust place, he hadn seen old Crabs for seven years, as
that nobleman remarked in his epistol; in the secknd he hated him, and
they hated each other; and nex, if master had loved his father ever
so much, he loved somebody else better--his father's son, namely: and
sooner than deprive that exlent young man of a penny, he'd have sean all
the fathers in the world hangin at Newgat, and all the "beloved ones,"
as he called his sisters, the Lady Deuceacisses, so many convix at
Bottomy Bay.

The newspaper parrografs showed that, however secret WE wished to keep
the play transaction, the public knew it now full well. Blewitt, as I
fo