Nor is it cheering to begin the experiment alone in all the loneliness of London.

Dick paid seven shillings a week for his lodging, which left him rather less than a shilling a day for food and drink.

Naturally, his first purchase was of the materials of his craft; he had been without them too long.

Half a day's investigations and comparison brought him to the conclusion that sausages and mashed potatoes, twopence a plate, were the best food.
Now, sausages once or twice a week for breakfast are not unpleasant.
As lunch, even, with mashed potatoes, they become monotonous.

At dinner they are impertinent.