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cigars when he has company and a clay 

 pipe when alone. Reginald goes out with 

 a tin pail to a saloon on another street from 

 two to five times daily. Asked by one of 

 us why he did so, he said he was going for 

 yeast ; then he thrust out his chin, extruded 

 his lower lip with his tongue, looked in- 

 tensely cross-eyed, pressed his thumb at the 

 tip of a blunt and dirty nose, and gave a 

 waving motion to his fingers. Reginald is 

 about ten years of age, and wears knicker- 

 bockers and a cap ; but there is no form of 

 sin known to centenarians with which 

 he is not on terms of contemptuous famil- 

 iarity. 



He has freckles, small, round eyes, sul- 

 len brows, two of his upper teeth are always 

 conspicuous, his hair is full of tumult and 

 suggestions, his clothes are expensive but 

 never clean, his voice is loud and harsh, 

 his manner imperative, and he is strong 

 for his age. When interrupted in a bur- 

 glary or a murder, he looks at the remon- 

 strant with majestic calm, and after hearing 

 him out deigns no reply, but proceeds 

 with his crime. If, however, any one re- 



