The character was soon asked, and soon given.

For our reader's sake we will somewhat enlarge upon it.
Mr.Morris Brown originally came into the world with the simple appellation of Moses, a name which his father--honest man--had, as the Minories can still testify, honourably borne before him.

Scarcely, however, had the little Moses attained the age of five, when his father, for causes best known to himself, became a Christian.

Somehow or other there is a most potent connection between the purse and the conscience, and accordingly the blessings of Heaven descended in golden showers upon the proselyte.

"I shall die worth a plum," said Moses the elder (who had taken unto himself the Christian cognomen of Brown); "I shall die worth a plum," repeated he, as he went one fine morning to speculate at the Exchange.