He stood there watching 'em and smoking a threepenny cigar, and when they 'ad finished he told the barmaid to give 'em a sausage-roll each, and went off.

He told the barmaid 'e was keeping 'em till they could find a job, and arter she 'ad told him he was too soft-'arted and would only be took advantage of, she brought another barmaid up to look at 'em and ask 'em wot they could do, and why they didn't do it.

"I found 'im inside the 'Horse and Groom,"' he said to the astonished Selina; "they've got a new barmaid there, and the pore gal wasn't in the house 'arf an hour

He too was going to ask the barmaid for a good-night or a greeting or a good-bye.

"Do go home, Jim," murmured the barmaid.

" "I wonder you don't drop down dead," ses the barmaid, lifting up 'is glass to wipe down the counter.

He doth report that you do pass among men as a bachelor, and, with sundry players and men of that ilk, do frequent a house of entertainment kept by one Doll Tearsheet, and do kiss the barmaid and call her your sweetheart.

"At the hotels I chuck all the barmaids under the chin, and pretend I'm a dog of a fellow for the sake of this part!"