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Updated: May 22, 2025
It was enough to have turned the head of a less sober rat; but he, honest fellow, only lifted up his snub nose with a sort of bull-dog look, which seemed to say, "Well, there's no accounting for taste." "Bob," said little Billy one evening, with more animation than usual, "I'se been a-watching the rats, and I saw only think what I saw!"
On being answered in the affirmative, the shabbily-dressed man said, 'Then I have something for ye; I have been a-watching for ye for the last three days, but ye didn't come out; missed yer this morning: 'ere it is; and he thrust a folded paper into Hubert's hand. 'What is this? 'Don't yer know? he said with a grin; 'Messrs. Tomkins & Co., Tailors, writ twenty-two pound odd.
"I don't, sir, and if you'll let me, I'll cure him in a minute." "But you'd hurt him." "Well, sir, I might hurt his feelings, but I wouldn't hurt him nowheres else." "What will you do, then?" "Here, hold hard," said Billy in a whisper. "Don't talk so loud; he's a-watching of us."
There he sat this tall, fair chap who had been in the place so long with his big pocket-book on the table in front of him, and even from where I was I could see that there was a great pile of bank-notes sticking out from it. All of a sudden he looks up and sees Mr. Morrison a-watching him and me from behind the counter.
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