little better than that by a poor workingman, lady?"

A very unpleasant-looking person, Mr. Cock-eye Flinks. Oh, a

peculiarly unpleasant-looking person to be a model son and a loving

husband and a tender father. Margaret was filled with a vague alarm.

But she was brave, was Margaret. "No," said she, very decidedly, "I

shan't give you another cent. So you climb right over that wall and go

straight back where you belong."

The methods of Mr. Flinks, I regret to say, were somewhat more crude

than those of Mesdames Haggage and Saumarez and Messieurs Kennaston

and Jukesbury.