Tom Dawkins, a country lout just arrived in London, is taken to the theatre to see the rehearsal, and ordinary comic scenes intermingled with provision for elaborate sets, as the opera proceeds, form the strangest jumble.

Perhaps Professor Boyd-Dawkins, who credits the "dryopithecus" with these productions, is a more consistent evolutionist; but at present Mr. Laing is defending a thesis as to man's antiquity.

And Sir Clinton Dawkins wrote in a letter to Herr Gwinner, the chief of the Deutsche Bank: "The fact is that the business has become involved in politics here, and has been sacrificed to the very violent and bitter feeling against Germany exhibited by the majority of newspapers and shared in by a large number of people.

The only great instance that I have ever known of the enjoyment of wealth was, that of Jamaica Dawkins, who, going to visit Palmyra, and hearing that the way was infested by robbers, hired a troop of Turkish horse to guard him[405].' Dr. Gibbons[406], the Dissenting minister, being mentioned, he said, 'I took to Dr. Gibbons.'

[405] Mr. Dawkins visited Palmyra in 1751.

Peel proposed that Dawkins should be instructed under circumstances of imminent danger to advance money not exceeding 20,000£, and this would be the best way of doing it.

" This unexpected offer of shelter was too tempting to be resisted, and on the way to London, where they arrived at nightfall, Oliver learnt that his friend's name was Jack Dawkins, but that he was known among his intimates as "The Artful Dodger.

"Who's the t'other one, and where does he come from?" "A new pal from Greenland," replied Jack Dawkins.

Eleazer Davy, Esq. James Dawkins, Esq.

George Dawkins, Esq. Mrs. Dawkins.

George Dawkins, Esq. Mrs. Dawkins.

"I suppose you want some place to sleep in to-night, don't you?" Upon Oliver answering in the affirmative, the strange boy, whose name was Jack Dawkins, said, "I've got to be in London to-night; and I know a 'spectable old genelman as lives there, wot'll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the changethat is, if any genelman he knows interduces you.

Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than Jack Dawkins, familiarly called the Dodger.

"This is him, Fagin," said Jack Dawkins; "my friend Oliver Twist.

ARTFUL DODGER, the sobriquet of John Dawkins, a young thief, up to every sort of dodge, and a most marvellous adept in villainy.

DAVY, Sir Humphry, iv. 119, n. 1. DAVY, Serjeant, iii. 87, n. 3. DAWKINS, 'Jamaica,' iv. 126.

Marie Dawkins Clark, Josephine Powell Beaty (W), John Wilson Bowyer (A) & Ernest G. Neu (C); 19Jul62; R298806.

CLARK, MARIE DAWKINS. Form and style.

Marie Dawkins Clark, Josephine Powell Beaty (W), John Wilson Bowyer (A) & Ernest G. Neu (C); 19Jul62; R298806.

CLARK, MARIE DAWKINS. Form and style.

"What has become of Katiethe second waitress?" asked Miss Althea Beekman of Dawkins, her housekeeper, as she sat at her satinwood desk after breakfast.

" Dawkins, who was a mid-Victorian, flushed awkwardly.

"You shouldn't have turned her out into the street like that, Dawkins!" she expostulated.

"That O'Connell is a regular clamwon't tell me anything at all!" remarked Mr. Tutt severely, hanging up his hat on the office tree with one hand while he felt for a match in his waistcoat pocket with the other, upon the afternoon of the day that Miss Beekman had had the conversation with Dawkins with which this story opens.

And then by chance Shane O'Connell made use of a phrase that indirectly saved his life, a phrase curiously like the one used on a former occasion by Dawkins to Miss Althea: "Katie was a member of your household; ye might have had a bit of thought for her!"