He was depressed rather than exhilarated at the sight of this busy multitude.

He seemed such a solitary atom in the midst of this great moving crowd.

Presently, however, the thought that where so many millions gained their living there must be room for one boy more, somewhat cheered him.

He was a long time making his way to his place of destination, for he stared into every shop window, and being, although he was perfectly ignorant of the fact, on the wrong side of the pavement, he was bumped and bustled continually, and was not long in arriving at the conclusion that the people of London must be the roughest and rudest in the world.

It was not until he ran against a gentleman, and was greeted with the angry, "now then, boy.