I get three shillings a week, which is about fivepence a day; out of that I eat threepence--I'm a big, growing lad, and it's hard to be hungry.
There's twopence left to pay for lodging.

I tried it once--twice--at the decentest place I could find, but--" here an expression of intolerable disgust came over the boy's face--"I don't intend to try that again.

I was never used to it.

Better keep my own company and the open air.

Now you see." "Oh, John!" "Nay--there's no need to be sorry.