TOM BROWN'S
his allowance would be stopped if he didn't go off to bed. (It would have been stopped, anyhow, but that he was a great favorite with the old gentleman, who loved to come out in the afternoons into the close to Tom's wicket and bowl slow twisters to him and talk of the glories of by-gone Surrey heroes with whom he had played in former generations.) So Tom roused himself, and took up his candle to go to bed; and then for the first time was aware of a beautiful new fishing-rod, with old Eton's mark on it, and a splendidly bound Bible, which lay on his table, on the title-page of which was written, "Tom Brown, from his affectionate and grateful friends, Frances Jane Arthur, George Arthur."
I leave you all to guess how he slept, and what he dreamed of.
