. The book of months . FEBRUARY to be trusted, and that mouth of his had eightcoppers on one side, and the crust, not yet mas-ticated, on the other. But did the blokethink about verdigris-poisoning and other inan-ities? Not a bit. If there was a moment tospare, the pennies were ejected and stowed in apocket somewhere at the back of his there was no moment to spare, he merelycursed, and prayed for a sixpence which got ridof five wet pennies. All the time he was shouting, Re-markable collapse! chaffing the policemanat the corner, shouting hoarse profanities to thedrivers of passing b
. The book of months . FEBRUARY to be trusted, and that mouth of his had eightcoppers on one side, and the crust, not yet mas-ticated, on the other. But did the blokethink about verdigris-poisoning and other inan-ities? Not a bit. If there was a moment tospare, the pennies were ejected and stowed in apocket somewhere at the back of his there was no moment to spare, he merelycursed, and prayed for a sixpence which got ridof five wet pennies. All the time he was shouting, Re-markable collapse! chaffing the policemanat the corner, shouting hoarse profanities to thedrivers of passing buses, and ogling miles ofgirls of his acquaintance. Now consider, 0 mycultured friend, where would you or I have beenin such a crisis, which, you must remember, was afeast and a high day to the bloke. We shouldhave retired behind a boarding to eat our crust,and sat still—God help us !—for several minutesin order to digest it. Thus we should have lostthe cream of the sale. Then coyly re-entering35 rfidS \. ((=^ M}2
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