Don't eat none of him!' And, with this special warning, vanished again.
By-and-bye, he returned to lay the cloth for supper; it having been arranged between Mrs Todgers and the young ladies, that they should partake of an exclusive veal-cutlet together in the privacy of that apartment.

He entertained them on this occasion by thrusting the lighted candle into his mouth, and exhibiting his face in a state of transparency; after the performance of which feat, he went on with his professional duties; brightening every knife as he laid it on the table, by breathing on the blade and afterwards polishing the same on the apron already mentioned.

When he had completed his preparations, he grinned at the sisters, and expressed his belief that the approaching collation would be of 'rather a spicy sort.' 'Will it be long, before it's ready, Bailey ?' asked Mercy.
'No,' said Bailey, 'it IS cooked.

When I come up, she was dodging among the tender pieces with a fork, and eating of 'em.' But he had scarcely achieved the utterance of these words, when he received a manual compliment on the head, which sent him staggering against the wall; and Mrs Todgers, dish in hand, stood indignantly before him.
'Oh you little villain!' said that lady.

'Oh you bad, false boy!' 'No worse than yerself,' retorted Bailey, guarding his head, on a principle invented by Mr Thomas Cribb.