enough, sir, but he ain't the only chap as perches
himself up there. There's a lot of chaps stands on the stonework below
at times and spouts to the crowd. Agitators or something of the sort
they calls 'em. At any rate they're fellers as has got too long tongues
in their mouths, I should think. Then it's round that moniment that
Englishmen gathers when there's a row abroad, so as to let everybody
know what they thinks about the matter. Ah! Trafalgar Square's a
useful sort of place, if it ain't so very nice to look at."

The omnibus now turned down Parliament Street, swept past Whitehall and
the Horse Guards, and finally drew up at Westminster.

With a cheery "Thank you, and good-bye" to the genial driver, Jack
jumped off and walked towards Westminster Bridge, where he stopped for a
quarter of an hour or more, looking at the swarm of vehicles crossing,
and at the panting tugs and the lazy barges floating on the river. Then
he walked along the Embankment, back into the Strand, and so returned to
his hotel.

"Well, Jack, to-morrow we will have a good run round the place,"
exclaimed the doctor as they finished their dinner, "and after that we
must find rooms for you somewhere, and introduce you to the crammer. As
regards the rooms, I think it will be a good plan for you to board with
someone. It is very lonely for a lad of your age in lodgings by
himself, as I remember well, for I spent four years of that kind of life
when I was a student. To-night, if you are not too tired, we will go to
some place of amusement; a theatre for choice."

Accordingly they went to Drury Lane, and thoroughly enjoyed the piece
and the wonders of modern stage scenery.

On the following day they went to various other places, and in the
evening looked up an old friend of the doctor's, a barrister, who lived
near Victoria Station.

"Look here, Jackson," said Dr Hanly as soon as he had introduced his
young friend, "I am on the look-out for rooms for this lad. He is to go
to a crammer's and work up for the army. The next examination takes
place in about six months, and, if possible, I want to get him into some
comfortable place where he will not be too much alone."

"Why not try this house, then?" answered Mr Jackson. "I have been here
for five years now, and have found it comfortable and reasonable. The
people who run the place are most respectable, in fact they are
gentlefolks who have been compelled to let rooms owing to reduce