Chapter 11 CHAPTER XI.

OLD MRS. SKINFLINT IN TROUBLE.–LOST IN THE WOODS.

There is no man so bad as he might be–a fact that everybody knows, but that most are apt to forget in their estimate of those who have offended their sense of right.

Mr. Smith had his virtues as well as faults; perhaps more of the latter than the former; but there were some mollifying circumst