anguage. They came bravely along the lane, Speug
pulling, Moossy hanging over his wife to make sure she had not been
hurt, and Nestie plucking flowers to make up a nosegay in memory of the
lane, while Moossy declared them to be "_Zwei herzliche Knaben_."

When they came to the main road, Speug would not give up his work, but
brought the carriage manfully to the little cottage, hidden in a garden,
where Moossy lodged. When she had been carried in--she was so light that
Moossy could lift her himself--she compelled the boys to come in, too,
and Moossy made fragrant coffee, and this they had with strange German
cakes, which were not half bad, and to which they both did ample
justice. Going home, Nestie looked at Speug, and Speug looked at Nestie,
and though no words passed it was understood that the days of the
troubles of Moossy in the Seminary of Muirtown were ended.

During the remaining year of Moossy's labours at the Seminary it would
not be true to say that he became a good or useful master, for he had
neither the knowledge nor the tact, or that the boys were always
respectful and did their work, for they were very far removed from being
angels; but Moossy did pluck up some spirit, and Speug saw that he
suffered no grievous wrong. He also took care that Moossy was not left
to be his own horse from day to day, but that the stronger varlets of
the Seminary should take some exercise in the shafts of Moossy's coach.
Howieson was a young gentleman far removed from sentiment, and he gave
it carefully to be understood that he only did the thing for a joke; but
there is no question that more than once Jock brought Moossy's
carriage, with Moossy's wife in it, successfully along that lane and
other lanes, and it is a fact that, on a certain Saturday, Speug came
out with one of his father's traps, and Mistress Moossy, as she was
called, was driven far and wide about the country around Muirtown.

"You are what the papers call a ph-philanthropist, Speug," said Nestie,
"and I expect to hear that you are opening an orphan asylum." And Speug
promptly replied that, if he did, the first person to be admitted would
be Nestie, and that he would teach him manners.

It was a fortunate thing for Moossy that some one died in Germany and
left him a little money, so that he could give up the hopeless drudgery
of the Seminary and go home to live in a little house upon the banks of
the Rhine. His wife, who had been improving under Dr. Manley's