How Crockett Lived

S. H. Crookett, the Scotch writer, has been telling how he nsed to raise tbe heat when a hard up student in Edinbnrgh. He lodged with a friend over a great coal station, and he nsed to go out in the evening and piek np the coals which the carts had dropped in the streeta. "Sometimes, " hesays, "Igrew so bold as to chuck a Inmp of coal at a driver, who invariably looked for the biggest Inmp on his load to hit back witb, which was what I wanted. Thus the exercise warmed me at the time and the coal warmed me afterward. And occasionally we got alarge enongh stock to sell to our companions, and buy a book or two. But I wish, here and now, solemnly to state that I never, nevar condescended to lift a lamp off a cart, at least hardly - well, unless it was manifestly incouveniencing the saf ety of the load or overburdening the safety of the horse, you kuow !"