Oft when I sike sigh.

Wynter wakeneth al my care, Nou this leves waxeth bare, Ofte y sike ant mourne sare, sigh; sore.

Ofte I sike ant mourne sare When hit cometh in my thoht Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.

Bill Sikes and the Artful Dodger are household words for criminals, and the character of Fagin is drawn with wonderful skill in this terrible view of the underworld of London.

Sikes and Nancy hurried the boy on between them through courts and alleys till, once more, he was within the dreadful house where the Dodger had first brought him.

Falls among Friends Mr. Bill Sikes having an important house-breaking engagement with his fellow-robber, Mr. Toby Crackit, at Shepperton, decided that Oliver must accompany him.

It was a detached house, and the night was dark as pitch when Sikes and Crackit, dragging Oliver along, climbed the wall and approached a narrow, shuttered window.

" The boy was put through the window, and Sikes, pointing to the door with his pistol, told him if he faltered he would shoot him.

Hardly had Oliver advanced a few yards before Sikes called out, "Back! back!" Startled, the boy dropped the lantern, uncertain whether to advance or fly.

Sikes got him out of the window before the smoke cleared away, and fired his pistol after the men, who were already in retreat.

"Clasp your arm tighter," said Sikes.

Sikes, finding the chase too hot, was compelled to leave Oliver in a ditch and make his escape with his friend Crackit.

Suspected by Fagin of plotting against her accomplices, the Jew so worked on Sikes that the savage housebreaker murdered her.

But neither Fagin nor Sikes escaped.

Sikes, when the news of Nancy's murder got abroad, was hunted by a furious crowd.

At the very moment when the crowd was forcing its way into the house, Sikes made a running noose to slip beneath his arm-pits, and so lower himself to a ditch beneath.

Then screaming all at once they fly, And all at once the tapers die, Poor Edwin falls to floor; Forlorn his state, and dark the place, Was never wight in sike a case Through all the land before.

A voice said, "For 'eaven's sike, Jine, don't begin to sing.

" BLATH´ERS AND DUFF, detectives who investigate the burglary in which Bill Sikes had a hand.

By Francis Ellsworth Merrill, Robert Edgar Riegel, Ralph Penrose Holben, Earl Ray Sikes & Elmer Emanuel Smead.

Emily A. Merrill & Rhea A. Holben (W) & Robert E. Riegel, Earl R. Sikes & Elmer E. Smead (A); 12Jul73; R555194.

Many a reader of the anonymous quarto of 1579 must have joined in Cuddie's exclamation: Sicker, sike a roundel never heard I none!

The love of Bill Sikes' terrier for Bill Sikes doesn't make Bill Sikes an admirable or lovable man: it only proves his terrier a credulous terrier.

The love of Bill Sikes' terrier for Bill Sikes doesn't make Bill Sikes an admirable or lovable man: it only proves his terrier a credulous terrier.

The love of Bill Sikes' terrier for Bill Sikes doesn't make Bill Sikes an admirable or lovable man: it only proves his terrier a credulous terrier.