make an odd shilling washin out, Lordlumme! I
don t know ow many pots."

"No work at my own tryde for six weeks," he
said further, in reply to my questions; " nothin
but odd jobs a blessed long wy between."

One meets with all sorts of adventures in coffee
houses, and I shall not soon forget a Cockney
Amazon in a place near Trafalgar Square, to whom
I tendered a sovereign when paying my score.
(By the way, one is supposed to pay before he
begins to eat, and if he be poorly dressed he is
compelled to pay before he eats.)

The girl bit the gold piece between her teeth,
rang it on the counter, and then looked me and
my rags witheringly up and down.

"Where d you find it ? " she at length de
manded.

"Some mug left it on the table when he went
out, eh, don t you think ? " I retorted.

"Wot s yer gyme ? " she queried, looking me
calmly in the eyes.

"I makes em," quoth I.

She sniffed superciliously and gave me the
change in small silver, and I had my revenge by
biting and ringing every piece of it.

"I ll give you ha penny for another lump of
sugar in the tea," I said.

"I ll see you in ell first," came the retort cour-

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