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the trouble he'd got into. " "When I got the 

 place down at the Canal "Wharf," said he, 

 "you know I married the cook at Wood- 

 side ; and if we'd been more careful, we 

 might have done very well, for I'd good 

 wages. But we went along too fast for 

 working-people, though, from my wife's ac- 

 count, it was a strange coming- down to her, 

 that had had the best of living in her place. 

 But I don't blame her at all, for I might 

 have seen it wouldn't be easy to leave such 

 a way of living as she'd been used to. When 

 she was put to bed and I had the doctor to 

 pay, and things to buy for the child, I began to 

 find it out ; and by the time we'd three chil- 

 dren, we got back a good deal: and so you'd 

 have said if you'd come our way and looked 

 in, which I was glad you didn't ; for I've 

 often thought of what you told me in by- 

 gone days. When it cost us more to live, I 

 couldn't earn any more ; and little by little I 

 began to take one thing and another, some- 

 times a little bit of corn for our pig, or a 

 bit of coal, and at last master found me out 

 taking some in a bag." 



When he'd done, said I, " I don't see 

 how I can help you ; for what can I say 



