muse and the books a a are you ready i am at your service sir replied that gentleman taking his usual seat on the usual settle and his wooden i under the table before it mr would you yourself useful and take a seat beside me sir for the of the candles t with the it was yet being given at him with his wooden leg to call his particular tion to mr standing musing before the fire in the space between the two settles hem i mr to attract his s attention would you wish to commence with an animal sir � from the no said mr no with that producing a little book from his breast pocket he handed it with great care to the literary gentlemen and inquired v hat do you call that sir replied his spectacles and referring to the title page is s lives and anecdotes of mr would you make yourself and draw the candles a little nearer sir this to haye a special of a stare upon his comrade em have in that lot asked mr can you find out easy sir replied turning to the table of contents and slowly fluttering the leaves of the book i should say they must be pretty well au here sir here s a lai sir my eye catches john sir john little sir dick john the mr jones of daniel give us said mr with another stare at his comrade sought and found the place page a hundred and nine mr chapter eight contents of chapter his birth and estate his garments and outward appearance miss and her feminine graces the s mansion the finding of a treasure the of the mutton a s idea of death bob the s cur and bis master how to turn a penny a substitute for a fire the advantages of keeping a the dies without a shirt the treasures of a eh what s that demanded mr the treasures sir repeated reading veiy distinctly of a mr sir would you the t this to secure attention to his adding with his lips only i mr drew an arm chair into the space where stood and said himself and rubbing his hands give us mr w pursued the biography of that eminent man through its mutual of and dirt da s death on a sick of cold and through mr s keeping rags together with a and his dinner by sitting upon it down to the incident of his dying in a sack after which he read on as follows � � the house or rather the heap of ruins in which mr lived and which at his death to the right of captain was a most miserable decayed building for it had not been repaired for more than half a century here mr eyed his comrade and the room in which they sat which had not been repaired for a long time but though poor in external the was yery rich in the interior it took many weeks to explore its whole contents and captain found it a very agreeable task to into the s secret here mr repeated secret and his comrade of mr s richest was found to be a in the a sum but little short of two thousand five hundred pounds was contained in this rich piece of and in an old carefully tied and strongly down to the in bank notes and gold were found five hundred pounds more here mr we s wooden leg started forward under the table and slowly elevated itself as he read on were discovered filled with guineas and and at different times on searching the comers of the house found various of bank notes some were crammed into the of the wall here mr looked at the wall � bundles were hid under the cushions and covers of the chairs here mr looked under himself on the settle some were at the back of the drawers and notes to six hundred pounds were fi und neatly doubled up in the inside of an old in the stable the captain found full of old and shillings the chimney was not left and paid very well for the trouble tor in nineteen different holes all filled were found various sums of money together to more than two hundred pounds on the way to this crisis mr we s wooden leg had gradually elevated its more and more and he had mr his opposite elbow and deeper until at length the preservation of his balance became with the two actions and he now dropped over upon that gentleman him against the settle s edge mr did either of the two for some few seconds make any to recover himself both remaining in a kind of pecuniary but the sight of mr sitting in the arm chair himself with his eyes upon the acted as a a to cover their movements mr with a � ho i pulled himself and mr up in a manner let s have some more said mr vol ir � cm � b ike � � r� is it your to take john mr let s did he did not appear to an bo off but an lady had gold and in a pot in a full of in a hole under her and a of k aa old rat the interest to her k to be a whose wealth up in little scrape of paper and old to hei another lady i by trade who had a of ten and hidden it here and there in and and under the to her a french g had crammed up chimney to the o� its powers a leather twenty � gold and a of as bj a his death by these steps mr at a concluding of the human many years ago there lived at a old of they had two sons ue was a et 