Another unfailing visiter is the market-gardener, on his way to deposit before the Covent Garden piazza such a pyramid of cabbages as might well have been manured in the soil with Master Jack's justly celebrated bean-stalk.

A visiter was announceda neighbour and kind friend, a man of wealth and importancewhat were his first words?they were the first I had heard from a stranger since my job,"How are you, Scropps, done up, eh?" Scropps!