ying padded feet over the stone Square.

"The Lion sniffed. 'It's a dog. What is he doing here to-night? I
suppose he is lost.'

"I looked out between his paws, and I gave a shout of delight; I was
answered by loud yelps of gladness.

"'It's Sam,' I shouted. 'Oh, Sam, 'ole cockie, 'ere I is; jump up wiv
me and Lal.'

"'Is he all right?' asked Lal.

"'Yus,' I yelled, 'a friend, a fust-class friend. 'Ere, Sam, I'll 'elp
yer up by yer paws,' and he scrambled up and licked my face. Then he
looks at the Lion.

"'He'll do,' said Lal. 'Tell him not to attract attention by barking
or making any more of that noise. You must both go to sleep; and I
must say that you are a remarkably strange pair. However, here you
are, and here you must stay.'

"When I woke up in the morning it was just beginning to be daylight. I
spoke to Lal, but he wouldn't answer, he was cold and still, and didn't
look as if he had ever spoken or moved in his life, and never would
again. I folded the policemen's aprons up tight and thin like
truncheons in case they missed them, clambered down, followed by Sam,
and had a wash in one of the basins of the fountains, and got fairly
clean and respectable, except my coat, all torn in half, which I
couldn't help, and then I set out to see what I could find. It was Sam
who nosed out something like a breakfast.

"Two stale buns in a bag. I should think some child had thrown them
away--penny buns they were. I never tasted anything better, and Sam
had some of them, and he thought they were all right.

"I made twopence that day, carrying a bag. The man who gave me the job
gave me the unnecessary caution at the same time, not to run away with
it, just as if such a thing was likely. Why, I could hardly lift it,
and I couldn't have run two steps with it.

"He was an inquisitive man too, wanted to know if I had stolen the dog.
I said no, I didn't steal. 'Well,' he asked, 'if you don't steal, how
do you get a living?' I said, 'I'm getting it now.' He said it must
be a hard job. I replied, 'Golly, you're right, governor, this 'ere
bag is that 'eavy it drags me vitals out; wot's it got inside of
it--bricks?' Then he drove me off and said I was a cheeky little
devil, but he gave me twopence. Sam and I went to an eating-house and
got two big lumps of pudding on the strength of it, and that fed us
bang up for that day.

"I waited around at night with Sam, and directly I saw the Square was
deser