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Sir Richard drew on his gloves, thrust his toe into the stirrup,

and then turned to look at me over his ar your walking tour--"

"Yes?"

"I think it's all da which he swung hihtness

and ease that ht have envied

"I'm sorry for that, sir, because uineas in your pocket!"

"That, with due economy, should be ample until I can find some

means to earn more"

"A fiddlestick, sir--an accursed fiddlestick!" snorted Sir

Richard "How is a boy, an unsophisticated, hot-headed young

fool of a boy to earn his own living?"

"Others have done it," I began

"Pish!" said the baronet

"And been the better for it in the end"

"Tush!" said the baronet

"And I have a great desire to see the world from the viewpoint of

the multitude"

"Bah!" said the baronet, so forcibly that his mare started; "this