"Wonderful! I should have thought them alive.
There is not a shop in the West End where it could have been turned out better, if so well.
"Lad, you are a wonder! Tell me now who and what are you?
I saw when you first addressed me that you were not what you seemed to be, a working lad." "I have been well educated," Frank said, "and was taught to preserve and stuff by my father, who was a great naturalist.

My parents died suddenly, and I was left on my own resources, which," he said, smiling faintly, "have hitherto proved of very small avail.

I am glad you are pleased.

If you will take me into your service I will work hard and make myself useful in every way.

If you require references I can refer you to the doctor who attended us in the country; but I have not a single friend in London except a railway porter, who has most kindly and generously taken me in and sheltered me for the last two months." "I need no references," the old man said; "your work speaks for itself as to your skill, and your face for your character.