ture. "There ain't no father in
all London as 'd do more for his son than I would, if only I see'd
there was something in it," said Moggs senior, with a tear in his
eye. Moggs junior was profuse in gratitude, profuse in obedience,
profuse in love. Oh, heavens, what a golden crown was there now
within his grasp!

All this occurred between the father and son early in the morning at
Shepherd's Bush, whither the son had gone out to the father after a
night of feverish longing and ambition. They went into town together,
on the top of the omnibus, and Ontario felt that he was being
carried heavenwards. What a heaven had he before him, even in that
fortnight's canvass which it would be his glory to undertake! What
truths he would tell to the people, how he would lead them with him
by political revelations that should be almost divine, how he would
extract from them bursts of rapturous applause! To explain to them
that labour is the salt of the earth;--that would be his mission.
And then, how sweet to teach them the value, the inestimable value,
of the political privilege lately accorded to them,--or, as Ontario
would put it, lately wrested on their behalf from the hands of an
aristocracy which was more timid even than it was selfish;--how sweet
to explain this, and then to instruct them, afterwards, that it was
their duty now, having got this great boon for themselves, to see
at once that it should be extended to those below them. "Let the
first work of household suffrage be a demand for manhood suffrage."
This had been enunciated by Ontario Moggs with great effect at the
Cheshire Cheese;--and now, as the result of such enunciation, he was
going down to Percycross to stand as a candidate for the borough! He
was almost drunk with delight as he sat upon the knife-board of the
Shepherd's Bush omnibus, thinking of it all.

He, too, went down to Percycross, making a preliminary journey,--as
had done Sir Thomas Underwood,--timing his arrival there a day or
two after the departure of the lawyer. Alas, he, also, met much to
disappoint him even at that early period of the contest. The people
whom he was taken to see were not millionaires and tradesmen in
a large way of business, but leading young men of warm political
temperaments. This man was president of a mechanics' institute, that
secretary to an amalgamation of unions for general improvement, and
a third chairman of the Young Men's Reform Association. They were
delighted to se