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"The last tiers was for me"

It was on my lips to ask hiave it a flourish, and with the words, "And what I done is

worked out and paid for!" fell to at his breakfast

He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions

were uncouth, noisy, and greedy Some of his teeth had failed him since

I saw him eat on the marshes, and as he turned his food in his mouth,

and turned his head sideways to bring his strongest fangs to bear upon

it, he looked terribly like a hungry old dog If I had begun with any

appetite, he would have taken it away, and I should have sat much as

I did,--repelled fro at the cloth

"I'rubber, dear boy," he said, as a polite kind of apology

when he made an end of his meal, "but I alas If it had been in

ot into lighter

trouble Similarly, I must have my smoke When I was first hired out as