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rid himself of the business altogether. The two 

 ways in which he conceived the youngster would 

 propose making use of him were these : either to be 

 lugged about to all sorts of places that his conductor 

 might clioose to take him to, though as unhkely to 

 find what was wanted in them as if we searched 

 Saunders' fair-booth in expectation of finding a com- 

 position of Mozart's there. The other likely propo- 

 sition (he thought) would be, that the young one 

 would go himself, finding a lot of animals that no one 

 would look at twice, and then favour his friend by 

 trotting him off to look at them, making it a point 

 that those that he had seen and were most approved 

 of by him should claim his friend's first attention. We 

 need scarcely say the old one was too wide awake to 

 be made use of in this manner, if, as he supposed 

 probable, it should be proposed. 



He called on his young acquaintance at the some- 

 what unusual hour of half-past eleven, and found 

 him breaking his fast by having laid a foundation of 

 one, or part of one, of Fortnum and Mason's York- 

 shire pies, that came to table set off by their orna- 



