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with a bit of billiard chalk that a man gave him.

It was like this:—

Got    Box  4 
       Box  4 
       Box  4 
       Box  4 
       Dog 40 
       Dog 14
           —— 
           70 

Spent Dogs  4 
      Grub 19 
      Tram  4 
      Leg   2
           ——
           29 

and he made out before he rubbed the chalk off the stone that the difference between twenty-nine shillings and seventy was about two pounds—and that was more than Dickie had ever had, or Beale either, for many a long year.

Then Beale came, wiping his mouth, and they walked idly up the road. Lodgings. Or rather a lodging. A room. But when you have had what is called the key of the street for years enough, you hardly know where to look for the key of a room.

"Where'd you like to be?" Beale asked anxiously. "You like country best, don't yer?"

"Yes," said Dickie.

"But in the winter-time?" Beale urged.

"Well, town then," said Dickie, who was