She went first into a tobacconist's--and sold cigarettes.

Sometimes she suffered from actual want, and ate fried fish.

"Do you know how nice fried fish tastes in London,--you on 'the Oilan' ?" she wrote gayly.
"I'm getting on splendidly; so's John Gale, I suppose, though he's looking cadaverous from starving himself all round.

Tell aunty I haven't seen the Queen yet, though after all I really believe she has not seen me." Then, after a severe struggle, she succeeded in getting on the stage as a song and dance girl.

She sang melodiously and danced divinely, so remarkably that the ignorant public, knowing her to be a Manx girl, and vaguely associating her with the symbol of the Isle of Man, supposed she had three legs.