I seem to be putting most of the work on your shoulders, but do not want you to help me in the shop.

I will look after the birds and buy and sell as I used to do; you will have the back room private to yourself for stuffing and mounting." Frank was delighted at this allotment of labor, and was soon at work rummaging the drawers and picking out specimens for mounting, and made a selection sufficient to keep him employed for weeks.

That evening he sallied out and expended his two pounds in underlinen, of which he was sorely in need.

As he required them his employer ordered showcases for the window, of various sizes, getting the backgrounds painted and fitted up as Frank suggested.
Frank did not get on so fast with his work as he had hoped, for the fame of the sailor's cat and macaw spread rapidly in the neighborhood, and there was a perfect rush of sailors and their wives anxious to have birds and skins, which had been brought from abroad, mounted.

The sailor himself looked in one day.
"If you like another two pounds for that 'ere cat, governor, I'm game to pay you.