"Here is a bank note.

Never mind about doing it up, I'll just slip it into my pocket.

Good-morning." And with that I was conscious of being lowered into a dark, deep pit, and without time to bid my comrades good-bye, or to take a last look at my old master, I felt myself hurried away I knew not whither.
This, then, was my first step into the world.
I lay untouched and apparently forgotten for several hours.

Gradually getting my eyes accustomed to the darkness, and looking about me as far as I was able, I heard a ticking going on in a pocket not very far from the one I was in, which I at once concluded to proceed from the watch of my new master.

Thinking I might be able to gain some information from him, I groped about till I found a small hole in my lodgings through which I was able to peep, and call.
"Tick!" said I, as loud as I could, to secure the attention of my fellow-watch.
"Who's that ?" at once exclaimed the other.
"I'm a new watch, bought to-day." "Humph! How much ?" "Three guineas." "Chain and all ?" "No; five pounds with the chain." "Humph, I cost thirty guineas.