If any body picked your pockets, would you have life enough to roll over ?" "I don't think I should," said a fat young Briton, with a very good-natured face; "but for a poor woman I can stand upright.

Major Hockin, here is a guinea for her.

Perhaps more of us will give a trifle." "Well done!" cried the Major; "but not so much as that.

Let us first ascertain all the rights of the case.

Perhaps half a crown apiece would reach it." Half a crown apiece would have gone beyond it, as we discovered afterward, for the old lady's handkerchief was in her box, lost under some more of her property; and the tide of sleepy charity taking this direction under such vehement impulse, several other steerage passengers lost their goods, but found themselves too late in doing so.