after the
bride. It is a great pity that the ignorant Gentiles, who are so careful
to do this at every wedding, do not know that it is all in vain unless
they cry aloud in Hebrew, "_Peru urphu_!" {159} with all their might when
the shoe is cast, and that the shoe should be filled with rice.

She went away, and in a few minutes the photographer came in great glee
to show a picture which he had taken.

"'Ere you are, sir. An elegant photograph, surroundin' sentimental
scenery and horiental coker-nuts thrown in,--all for a diminitive little
shillin'."

"Now that time you missed it," I said; "for on my honor as a gentleman, I
have only ninepence in all my pockets."

"A gent like you with only ninepence!" said the artist.

"If he hasn't got money in his pocket now," said Old Liz, speaking up in
my defense, "he has plenty at home. He has given pounds and pounds to us
gypsies."

"_Dovo's a huckaben_," I said to her in Romany. "_Mandy kekker delled
tute kumi'n a trin-grushi_." (That is untrue. I never gave you more
than a shilling.)

"Anyhow," said Liz, "ninepence is enough for it." And the man,
assenting, gave it to me. It was a very good picture, and I have since
had several copies taken of it.

"Yes, _rya_," said Old Liz, when I regretted the absence of my Lady Lee,
and talked with her about shoe-strings and old shoes, and how necessary
it was to cry out "_Peru urphu_!" when you throw them,--"yes. That's the
way the Gorgis always half does things. You see 'em get a horse-shoe off
the roads, and what do they do with it! Goes like _dinneli_ idiots and
nails it up with the p'ints down, which, as is well beknown, brings all
the bad luck there is flyin' in the air into the house, and _taders
chovihanees_ [draws witches] like anise-seed does rats. Now common sense
ought to teach that the shoe ought to be put like horns, with the p'ints
up. For if it's lucky to put real horns up, of course the horse-shoe
goes the same _drom_ [road]. And it's lucky to pick up a red string in
the morning,--yes, or at any time; but it's sure love from a girl if you
do,--specially silk. And if so be she gives you a red string or cord, or
a strip of red stuff, _that_ means she'll be bound to you and loves you."

VI. STREET SKETCHES.

London, during hot weather, after the close of the wise season, suggests
to the upper ten thousand, and to the lower twenty thousand who reflect
their ways, and to the lowest millions who