Let me go on.
"The forlorn wanderers of the streets have (as I found it) one way always open to them of presenting their sufferings to the notice of their rich and charitable fellow-creatures.

They have only to break the law--and they make a public appearance in a court of justice.

If the circumstances connected with their offense are of an interesting kind, they gain a second advantage: they are advertised all over England by a report in the newspapers.
"Yes! even _I_ have my knowledge of the law.

I know that it completely overlooked me as long as I respected it.

But on two different occasions it became my best friend when I set it at defiance! My first fortunate offense was committed when I was just twelve years old.
"It was evening time.