"I wonder I never thought of it before! I can stuff birds and beasts at any rate a deal better than those wooden looking things.

I might have a chance of getting work at some naturalist's shop.

I will get a directory and take down all the addresses in London, and then go around." He now became conscious of a conversation going on between a little old man with a pair of thick horn rimmed spectacles and a sailor who had a dead parrot and a cat in his hand.
"I really cannot undertake them," the old man said.

"Since the death of my daughter I have had but little time to attend to that branch.

What with buying and selling, and feeding and attending to the live ones, I have no time for stuffing.