Linnet. . 
for. . . 
Sixpence! 
THE LINNET (In Summer Plumage). 
Reproduced from an Original Drawing by J. Smit. 
'"I"''HE Saturday evening market was in full progress at 
nine o’clock when I crossed the road on my way 
home. Just where I crossed, a crowd had gathered round 
a big man, standing by a barrow, who was bawling in a 
loud voice ; and I stopped to look at him. He was a huge 
gross-looking man, with a broad, beardless, flabby face, 
and pale blue prominent eyes. He was holding forth to 
the people he had got together, trying in the street-seller’s 
usual manner to keep their attention by his facetious 
oratory. “ People wonder at me/’ he said, “ because I’m so 
big. They keep on telling me I’m a stout man ; and I 
