Some people I know even, who live on it quite comfortably, and make their daily bread by it.

It had been our friend Macshane's sole profession for many years; and he did not fail to draw from it such a livelihood as was sufficient, and perhaps too good, for him.

He managed to dine upon it a certain or rather uncertain number of days in the week, to sleep somewhere, and to get drunk at least three hundred times a year.

He was known to one or two noblemen who occasionally helped him with a few pieces, and whom he helped in turn--never mind how.

He had other acquaintances whom he pestered undauntedly; and from whom he occasionally extracted a dinner, or a crown, or mayhap, by mistake, a goldheaded cane, which found its way to the pawnbroker's.