nly that instead of making his stool leg into a musical pipe he
converted it into a pipe for tobacco. But when the watchman, led by the
smell, entered his cell, there was no pipe to be found; only a deeply
injured man complaining that "somebody, had been smokin' outside, and it
had blowed into his cell through the door-winder from the corridore, and
p'isoned the atmosphere. And he didn't like it." And thus history
repeats itself. 'T is all very well for the sticklers for Wesleyan
gentility to deny that John Bunyan was a gypsy, but he who in his life
cannot read Romany between the lines knows not the jib nor the cut
thereof. Tough was J. B., "and de-vil-ish sly," and altogether a much
better man than many suppose him to have been.

The tinker lived with his wife in a "tramps' lodging-house" in the town.
To those Americans who know such places by the abominable dens which are
occasionally reported by American grand juries, the term will suggest
something much worse than it is. In England the average tramp's lodging
is cleaner, better regulated, and more orderly than many Western
"hotels." The police look closely after it, and do not allow more than a
certain number in a room. They see that it is frequently cleaned, and
that clean sheets are frequently put on the beds. One or two hand-organs
in the hall, with a tinker's barrow or wheel, proclaimed the character of
the lodgers, and in the sitting-room there were to be found, of an
evening, gypsies, laborers with their families seeking work or itinerant
musicians. I can recall a powerful and tall young man, with a badly
expressive face, one-legged, and well dressed as a sailor. He was a
beggar, who measured the good or evil of all mankind by what they gave
him. He was very bitter as to the bad. Yet this house was in its way
upper class. It was not a den of despair, dirt, and misery, and even the
Italians who came there were obliged to be decent and clean. It would
not have been appropriate to have written for them on the door, "_Voi che
intrate lasciate ogni speranza_." (He who enters here leaves soap
behind.) The most painful fact which struck me, in my many visits, was
the intelligence and decency of some of the boarders. There was more
than one who conversed in a manner which indicated an excellent early
education; more than one who read the newspaper aloud and commented on it
to the company, as any gentleman might have done. Indeed, the painful
part of