done without a deal of interest. They keeps
it to themselves, and never lets any one in unless he makes himself very
troublesome and gets up a party agin 'em."

"I wonder what the nobs has for supper," said the young one pensively.
"Lots of kidneys I dare say."

"Oh! no; sweets is the time of day in these here blowouts: syllabubs
like blazes, and snapdragon as makes the flunkys quite pale."

"I would thank you, sir, not to tread upon this child," said a widow.
She had three others with her, slumbering around, and this was the
youngest wrapt in her only shawl.

"Madam," replied the person whom she addressed, in tolerable English,
but with a marked accent, "I have bivouacked in many lands, but never
with so young a comrade: I beg you a thousand pardons."

"Sir, you are very polite. These warm nights are a great blessing, but I
am sure I know not what we shall do in the fall of the leaf."

"Take no thought of the morrow," said the foreigner, who was a Pole; had
served as a boy beneath the suns of the Peninsula under Soult and fought
against Diebitsch on the banks of the icy Vistula. "It brings many
changes." And arranging the cloak which he had taken that day out of
pawn around him, he delivered himself up to sleep with that facility
which is not uncommon among soldiers.

Here broke out a brawl: two girls began fighting and blaspheming; a man
immediately came up, chastised and separated them. "I am the Lord Mayor
of the night," he said, "and I will have no row here. 'Tis the like of
you that makes the beaks threaten to expel us from our lodgings." His
authority seemed generally recognized, the girls were quiet, but they
had disturbed a sleeping man, who roused himself, looked around him and
said with a scared look, "Where am I? What's all this?"

"Oh! it's nothin'," said the elder of the two lads we first noticed,
"only a couple of unfortinate gals who've prigged a watch from a
cove what was lushy and fell asleep under the trees between this and
Kinsington."

"I wish they had not waked me," said the man, "I walked as far as from
Stokenchurch, and that's a matter of forty miles, this morning to see
if I could get some work, and went to bed here without any supper. I'm
blessed if I worn't dreaming of a roast leg of pork."

"It has not been a lucky day for me," rejoined the lad, "I could not
find a single gentleman's horse to hold, so help me, except one what was
at the House of Commons, and he kept me there two mo