The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY

Fri II E O.X F 0 D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited). •
THIS EVENING, and during the Week, EXTRA
PERFORMANCES by all the available talent. Opera,
Burlesque, Pantomime, Ballet, • and Comedy Every
Evening, performed by the entire company, inclinling
Misses Russell, Fitz Henry, Barrie • Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
W. Williams, Spagnoli, &c. THE HUNGARIANS in
their new entertainment, Messrs. Duriah and Davies's
illustrations of Negro Life; Herr Preskow, the wondrous
posturer, from the Grand Theatre, St. Petersburg; the
D'Aubans; Herr Berrani and his talented family; the
ENCHANTED HASH, eleven characters performed by Mr.
E. Marshall (his first appearance here), the entertainment
written expressly for•him by Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and
a host of other talent, for which see programme and small
biIk—EVERY EVENING.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, ls.; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
RI-FUM ! TI-FUM.

During the Week will be performed the above most
extraordinary Entertainment, containing all the novel-
tics now in this country, and including the services of
Les Montagnards,
_their first appearance ; Mr. E. Mar-
shall, Mrs. and Mr. W. Randall, the renowned Talliott,
Les Freres d'Etoile, Signor Tescano, a la Donato; Les
Tableaux d'Amour, illuminated by the Magnesium Light ;
Ftviry Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. T. Burgess
and Mr. W. Gowrie ; and Grand Ballet of upwards of one
hundred ballerines. • The whole written and composed
expressly for this establishment by William Vandervell,
Esq. In addition to the vocal and instrumental entertain-
ment. EVERY EVENING.

Admission—Area, Gd ; stalls and balcony, is.

IVEADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Baker-street, _ _

NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are
full-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR-
LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias
ERNEST SOUTHEY.

Open from 11 a.m, till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, Ono Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly.
Musical Director and Conductor, X LUIGI CURTI.
Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. M`Eleney. Euphoulon, the
celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca.
Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand
Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio-
loncello, 11. Sloman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and
ECLIPSE GALOP.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, ls.
Manager, AI. bRENET.

CHO COLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

CHOCOLAT-AIENIER is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

mENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

TVIIAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
NOW? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived,
bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious
flavour, and which may row be had, at a mere commission on
the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO ri PAN Y,
No. 5, Great St Helen's Churchyard, l3ishopsgate-street.

DR. CULVERWELL'S GRAND TURKISH
BATHS,
3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street,
Ladies every Monday.
Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each; 15, One Guinea.
Also opposite the Post-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand.

PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE
BEST AND CITEATE3T.
STRONG to FINE LLACK TEA, Is. 6d., 25., 2s. 6,1., 35.,
3s. 4d.
Moat Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 6 1. per pound.
Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice Coffee, Is. 4d., Is. Gd , Is. 81.
PHILLIPS and CO., TEA MERCHANTS,
F, King William-stre-A, City, London, E.C.
A price current free. Sugars at market prizes.
PHILLIPS and (70 send all goods Carriage Free within
eight miles of 8, King William-street. 40s. worth Car-
riage Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng-
land. Phillips and Co. have no Agents, nor any connection
with any house in Worcester or Swansea.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. It. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used In the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED TIIE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &c.

MADAME RACHEL'S ROYAL ARABIAN
ENAMEL
ALABASTER POWDER, ARABI 1N z•O BPS,
and GOLDEN CIRCASSIAN HAIR IV Atilt can now 1)2
olyained at alt chemists in town and country. To guard
against imposition all enamels, waahea, and to let requisites
vended in her name have the Royal Arabian signet attached
to them.-47A. New Bond-street, where she can be consulted
dally.—Agents required in town and country.

AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN
j EFFECTUAL ItESIEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ac
ranted to be the beat medicine tor immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. l'reparea on'y and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist. S. King-William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and
three quantities in one, 2s. Od. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.
HOSPITAL FOR
43, Great Ormond-s

Patron--her ➢laj,

SICK CHILDREN,
:reet, Queen-square.
'sty the QUEEN.

)leasure in announcing that A.
Esq , M.P., ha 3 consented tO
II ANNIVERSA.Ity PESTI-
lary 12, at Willis's Rooms.
iP STEWARDS.

Vice-Admiral Sir Augustus
Clifford. Bart.
The Rev. Sir C. Macgregor,
Bart.
Sir Archibald Alison, Bart.
Admiral Sir William Bowles
Col. Beauchamp Walser, C.B.
Colonel Home Purves, C.D.
Colonel F. R. Wndo Sibthorp
Lieut.-Colonel Frederick C.
K eppel
Lieut -Colonel Playialr
Michael T. Bass, Esq., mp.
Allen A. Bathurst, Esq., M.P.
Stephen Care, Esq.,
W. W. Fitzwilliam Dick, Esq.,
M.P.

Albert grant, Esq., M p.
K. D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
J. Dyce Nicol, Esq., M. P.
Arthur J Otway, Esq.,
Charles Waring, Esq., M. P.

trds will shortly be published.
lkfully received. The expense
)ne guinea.
nds are earnestly solicited, and
ry the Treasurer, Fleury Sykes
the Stewards.
WHITFORD, Secretary.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in fire years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. v., aged 16, ft Ilen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
H. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. 11., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents read,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the mmittee wish to form would be for
Young girls, almost cs dren, from the age of Bto 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Mr. Conopn tarni
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BarglaY and Q., imnbard-street.

THE MOORFIELDS ESTATE, Hereford.—
Votes for Het efordshire.—Eligible Investment.-1 he
noNSERVAME LAND SOCI;,.TY.—The Allotment of
the above valuable Estate, at Hereford, at the Shire Hall,
will take place on WEDNESDAY,. 21st February, MG, at
S. ven o'clo k, of er a Public Meett ig, at which the Society's
wokinz system will be ekplained. W. Esq., tile
Chairman of the Hereford Conservative Association, will
preside. It. IlagvnDay, I.sq, Q.C., M.P. Ll' 11 eref rd, will
be present. The Deputation of the Board will be Viscount
Haut lagh, Viscoun luLlestre, Colonel Meyrlek, and the lion
and 11ev. W. Talbot. Particulars of the Estate, with prices
of the plots, are enclosed. Plans Gd., er 7d. 14y post. Pros-
pectuses sent free of charge.

CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
Office, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London.

THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION (Limited'.
Capital subscribed, £5,0(0,000.
Paid up, £500,000.
CHAIpIAN—JOHN CHAPMAN, ESQ.
MANAGERS.
Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq.
This Asso.iatiJn makes ADVANCES upon approved Mer-
cantile and other Securities, and RECEIVES MONEY ON
DEPOSIT at interest for short or long periods.
DEPOSITORS for periods of not less than Three Years
may procure, on application at the Offices, Debentures of the
Association, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum, pay-
able quarterly by Coupon " to bearer" attached.
W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary.
27, Lombard-street, London, E.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
. FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been. given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would havo had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving—. The Manager, &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least 4000 more will ba required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus, E.C.

DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS To. THE REFUGE.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale.
His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi.
His Excellency the Count Lavradio.
The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett,
The Earl of Desart. Fowler, and Barnard.
The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs. danbury and Lloyds.
The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave
The Earl of Harewood. and Co.
The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora-
The Earl of Kenmore. tion.
The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance
The Countess of Albemarle. Company.
The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office.
The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq.
tescue. J. Bethell, Esq.
The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barnlwall.
Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton.
K.P. Mrs. Curling.
The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq.
The Lord Petre. Dr. Carvalho.
The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P.
The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq.
The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton.
Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq.
The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas.
The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co.
The Hon. 11. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons.
Sir Charles Price, Bart.\-- Miss Dobson
Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjeo Furdonjee, Esq.
Sit Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Franklin
Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Dr. Gull.
Jeejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq.
The Governors of the Bank 11. E. Gurney, Esq,
of England. Mesfirs. Hills & Underwood.
The Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg.
Armourers and Braziers. Miss Kaye.
The Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq.
Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of L. Lloyd, Esq.
Drapers. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss M'Mahon.
Grocers. C. Manning, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss Martin
Saddlers. Breton Martinez, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Messrs. Ponsford and Sou-
Salters. thall.
The Worshipful Company of F. X. Pereira, Esq.
Merchant Tailors. Mrs. 2almer.
The Directors of the Bank of H. W; Prescott, Esq.
Australia. F. Philips, Esq.
The Directors of the Bank of N. H. E. Prowett, Esq.
Australasia. M. R. De Quadros, Esq.
The Directors of the Colo- G. A. Shoo, Esq.
nix). Bank. H. Riddell, Esq.
The Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq.
Bank of Ireland. Messrs. Ralli Bros.
The Directors of the Provin- Messrs. De la Rue and Co.
vial Bank of Ireland. Miss Rombold.
The Directors .of the Char- Mrs. Simpson.
tered Mercantile Bank of Mrs. Scott.
India, London, and China. Mrs. Southby.
The Directors of the Impe- Messrs. Tucker and New.
rial Ottoman Bank. F. Ward, Esq.
The Directors of the London G. Basil Wood, Esq.
and County Bank. Miss Young.
The Directors of the Union J. Young, Esq.
Bank.
Messrs. Zuluets. and Co.
Messrs. Coutts and Co. &c. &c. &c.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEoN MOSELY and
30, Berners-street
ONS, Dentists,t Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all
purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
„
For
the'
efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
'
Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
948, Strand, London • la, Whitefriargateglull ; 10, Norfolk-
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street, S
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effield ; 4, East;-parade, Leeds; and 14, St. Nicholas-
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

shivering men in the rigging, and a yell of indig-
nation, mingled with not a few imprecations, from
the crowd on the cliffs, the steamer proceeded on her
course. Within a few minutes of this cruel deser-
tion, a giant wave lifted the shattered hull
of the Hannah More. on its foaming crest, and
dashed it with tremendous force against a de-
tached pyramid of granite, known as Rat Island.
A .loud crash. was heard above the roar of the
waves, the sides of the noble ship were seen to
i vibrate and' collapse, and in twenty minutes little
remained of her but a thousand fragments, fast
drifting to the westward. Another effort was then
made to save the crew. The same brave men who
had gone out previously again manned their tiny
punt, and by a stupendous effort were successful in
bringing •off five men, who were landed on the
beach, and pulled up the cliffs by ropes. Before
the little boat could be again got afloat the ship had
broken up, and the remainder of the hapless crew
were to be seen clinging to the floating spars, and
being carried by the tremendous eddy running round
Rat Island away to westward, where some of them
were watched for hours drifting to and fro in the
currents. One poor fellow nas seen hanging to a
spar, which was caught by a huge breaker and
dashed against the granite pyramid ; he rose no
more. A stalwart and brave man, Nolliscott by
name, was observed to make a desperate effort to
swim ashore. He reached • land, but could obtain
no footing on the perpendicular rocks. Turning his
back on the treacherous rocks he swam to the wreck,
seized a spar, and a second time made for shore, but
was beaten back. When on the verge of exhaus-
tion the drowning man managed to get close under
a lofty and precipitous rock, when an islander, named
Isgar, threw him a rope, which was clutched with
the grasp of death, fastened round the man's waist,
and he, amid lusty cheers, was pulled up the rocks.
One of his feet was terribly lacerated in the struggle;
thus six out of the crew of the ill-fated ship were
saved. The body of one of the 19 unfortunate men,
named George Greigg, of London, was picked up
and buried."

In jeopardy.

(From Dickens's " All the Year Round.")

I'm a bricklayer, I am; and, what's more, down in the
country, where people ain't so particular about keeping
trades distinct as they are in great towns. This may be
seen any day in a genera] shop, where, as one might say,
you can get anything, from half a quartern of butter up to
a horn lantern ; and down again to a hundred of short-cut
brads—well, down in the country I've done a bit of a job
now and then as a mason ; and not so badly neither, I
should suppose, for I got pretty well paid considering„
and didn't hear more than the usual amount of growlin
arter it was done—which is saying a deal.' Ours ain't the
most agreeable of lives, and if it warn't for recollecting a
little about the dignity of labour, and such-like, one would
often grumble more than one does.

Some time ago, it don't matter to you, nor me, nor yet
anybcdy else, just when it was, work was precious slack
down our way—all things considered, I ain't a-going to
tell you whe:e our way is. A day's work a week had
been all I'd been able to get for quite two months ; so
Mary, that's my wife, used to pinch and screw, and screw
and pinch, and keep on squeezing shilling arter shilling out
of the long stocking, till at last it got•so light, that one
morning she lets it fall upon the table, where, instead of
coming down with a good hearty spang, it fell softly and
jest like a piece of cotton that was empty. And then, poor
lass, she hangs on to my neck, and burst out a'crying that
pitiful, that I'm blest if I didn't want my nose blowing about
every quarter of a minute. I hadn't minded the screwing
and pinching; not a bit of it. First week we went without
our puddings. Well, that wasn't much. Second week we
stopped my half-pints o' beer. Third week I put my pipe
out. Mary kep' on saying that things must look up soon,
and then I should have an ounce of the best to make up
for it. But things didn't look up ; and, in spite of all the
screwing, we got down to the bottom of the stocking, as I
said jest now.

I hadn't much cared for the pinching, but it was my
poor lass as got pinched the most, and she was a-getting
paler and thinner every day, till I couldn't bear to see it.
I run out o' the house, and down to Jenkins's yard, where
I'd been at work last. I soon found Jenkins ; and I says
to him, " Governor," I says, " this won't 10, you know; a
man can't lire upon wind."
" True for you, Bill Stock," he says.
" And a man can't keep his wife upon wind," I says.
" Right you are, Bill," he says ; and he went on and
spoke as fair as a man could speak ; and said ho hadn't a
job he could put me on, or he would have dono it in a
minute. " I'm werry sorry, Bill," he says, " but if times
don't mend, I tell you what I'm a-going to do."
" What's that ?" I says.

" Go up to London," he says ; " and if I was a young
man like you, I wouldn't stop starving down here, when
they're giving first-class wages.up there, and when there's
building going on all round, as thick as thick, and good
big jobs too; hotels, and railways, and bridges, and all
sorts."

I faces round sharp, and walks off home ; for when a
feller's hungry and close up, it lays hold on his temper as
well as his stummick, more especially when there's some-
body belonging to him in the same fix. So I walks off
home, where I finds Mary a-looking werry red-eyed ; and
I makes no more ado but I gets my pipe, and empties the
bit o' dust there was in the bottom o' the jar into it, lights
up, and sits down aside of Mary, and puts my arm
round her, jest as I used in old courting times ; and then
begin, smoking an' thinking. `'Perry slow as to the fust,
and werry fast as to the second ; as smoking costs money,
and the dust was dry; whereas thinking came cheap jest
then—and it's sur-prising how yer can think on a empty
inside. I suppose it is because there's plenty o' room for
the thoughts to work in.

Well, I hadn't been settin' above a minute like this,
when my lass lays her head on my shoulder, and though
she wouldn't let me see it, I knowed she was a.zgiving
way ; but I didn't take no notice. Perhaps I held her a
little bit tighter ; and there I sat thinking and watching the
thin smoke, till I could see bui:dings, and scaffolds, and
heaps o' bricks, and blocks o' stone, and could almost hear
the ring of the trowels, and the "sar-jar" o' the big stone
saws, and there was the men a-running up and down the
ladders, and the gangers a-giving their orders, and all
seemed so plain, that I began to grow warm. And I keeps
on smoking till it seemed as though I was one of a great
crowd o' men standing round a little square wooden office
place, and being called in one at a time ; and there I could
see them a-takin' their six-and-thirty shillings and two
pounds apiece, as fast as a clerk could book it. And then
all at once it seemed to fade away like a fog in the sun ;
and I kep' on drawing, but nothing come, and I found as
my pipe was out, and there was nothing left to light agen.
So I knocks the ashes out—what there was on 'em—and then
I breaks the pipe up, bit by bit, and puts all the pieces in
my pocket—right-band trousers-pocket.
" What for I' says you.

Nothin' at all, as I knows on ; but that's what I did ; and I
ain a-telling you what happened. Perhaps it was because I
felt uncomfortable with nothing to rattle in my pocket.
Howsomever, my mind was made up; and brightening
up, and looking as cheerful as if I'd six-and-thirty shil-
lings to take on Saturday, I says to her as was by my
side :

" Polly, my lass, Pam a-going up to Loudon !"
" Going where 2" she says, lifting up her head.

" London," I says ; and then I began to think about
what going to London meant. For, mind yer, it didn't
mean a chap in a rough jacket making up a bundle in a
clean blue handkercher, and then shovin' his stick through
the knot and then sticking it over his shoulder, and then
stuffing his hands in his pockets, and taking the road up-
wards, whistlin' like a blackbird. No: it meant something
else. It meant breaking up a tidy little home as two
young folks—common people, in course—had:been a sav-
ing up for years, to make snug; it meant half breaking a
poor simple lass's heart to part with this little thing and
that little thing; tearing up the nest that took so long
a-building, and was anus so snug arter a cold day's work.
I looked at the clean little winders, and then at the bright
kettle on the shiny black hob, and then at the werry small
fire as there was, and then fust at one thing, and then at
another, all so clean and neat and homely, and all show-
ing how proud my lass was of 'em all, and then I thought
a little more of what going up to London really did mean,
and I suppose it must have been through feeling low
and faint and poorly, and I'm almost ashamed to tell
it, for I'm such a big strong chap; but truth's truth.
Well, somehow a blind seemed to come over my eyes,
and my head went down upon my knees, and
I cried like a schoolboy. But it went off, for
my lass was kneeling aside me in a minute, 'and got my
thick old head upon her shoulder, and began a-doing all
she could to make believe it was all right, and she would'nt
mind a bit, but we'd get on wonderfully well up there ; and
so we talked it over for long enough, while she made be-
lieve to be so cheerful, and knelt at my side, a-ciphering
away—a-putting ;down nought for herself, and a-carrying
I don't know how much for me—till I glowed up, under
the discovery that whether work was plenty, or whether
work was slack, I, Bill Stock—christened William—was
rich in my good wife.
There was poroethiug like a thought, that was, and