Introduction. 



wrestling with those of the middle and work- 

 ing classes for every piece of bread that falls 

 in the gutter. Nothing is infra dig. that 

 brings in a shilling, and all has been and is 

 being tried. The sons of the great are to be 

 found shoulder to shoulder with " Tommy 

 Atkins," up behind a hansom cab, keeping 

 shops, selling wines, horses, cigars, coals, and 

 generally endeavouring feebly to shoulder 

 the son of the working man out of the 

 race over the ropes. Fortunately Heaven 

 tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, and I 

 believe it has done so now. I believe kind 

 Dame Nature during the last summer has 

 stepped in and opened out an honourable 

 path for many gentlemen's sons, that I think 

 will be their salvation, and at all events, if it 

 does not make them all rich, will, if they only 

 follow it, make them most useful members of 

 society and keep them out of mischief and 

 out of their mammas' snug drawing-rooms. 



