'Are we really forty thousand strong, or do we still speak in round numbers when we take the Association at that amount ?' 'Our total now exceeds that number by a score and three,' Gashford replied, casting his eyes upon his papers.
'The funds ?' 'Not VERY improving; but there is some manna in the wilderness, my lord.
Hem! On Friday night the widows' mites dropped in.

"Forty scavengers, three and fourpence.

An aged pew-opener of St Martin's parish, sixpence.
A bell-ringer of the established church, sixpence.

A Protestant infant, newly born, one halfpenny.

The United Link Boys, three shillings--one bad.