“He was the wust of the whole bunch,” Ann Lightfoot said.

Mrs. Sandboys gave a faint scream, for, as she observed to Mrs. Wewitz, she shouldn’t wonder but what the nasty hairy brute of a fellow would be imagining that she was in love with him, and then what on earth would become of her!


CHAPTER XII.

“Do, walk in, gentlemen, walk in,

The price is only threepence,

We’re just a-going to begin—

You two step in for fi’pence.

You ne’er have seen in all your days,

So fine a show as this is;