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feature peculiar to that class who travel in cara- 

 vans, and exhibit dwarfs, giants, and such like 

 vamped up wonders. The dog was a well-fed, 

 comfortable-looking kind of bull-terrier, slightly 

 rough about the muzzle ; but notwithstanding his 

 quiet and sedate look, there was a certain expres- 

 sion of low cunning and blackguardism about his 

 face which would have stamped him anywhere as 

 the associate of vile and dissolute company ; and 

 although he wagged his stumpy tail, and pretended 

 to look amiable at his equally cunning-looking 

 mistress, his attempts at amiability seemed to be 

 rather the effects of kicks and blows than of genuine 

 attachment. He received her caresses, too, with a 

 kind of uncertain appearance of pleasure, as if he 

 did not much value them, but of the two rather 

 preferred them to her kicks. 



On entering the hall he cast a kind of hasty look 

 round him, much as you would expect a rogue to 

 do on entering a shop from which he intended to 

 purloin something : however, on the woman pro- 

 ducing certain dirty cards, with their corners all 

 worn round by constant use, and marked with 

 numbers, letters, &c., the dog prepared himself for 

 action, with a preparatory lick at his lips and a 

 suspicious look at his mistress. The tricks con- 

 sisted of the usual routine of adding up figures. 



