You know him, don't you ?" "Do you mean Shock ?" I said.
"Yes, that ragged old dirty chap," he cried.

"You can see him out of your window, can't you ?" "I can sometimes," I said; "but I can't now." "That's because he's sneaking along under the wall.

Never mind; we'll pay him some day if he only comes out." "Doesn't he come out then ?" "No.

He's nobody's boy, and sleeps in the sheds over there.

One of Brownsmith's men picked him up in the road, and brought him home in one of the market carts.