Cream. Contains Jack of All Trades, and the Autobiography of a Thief (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...your business, and I'll mind mine, ' was his chant. He seemed to be wonderfully jealous of her. He could not forbid Mr. Yates to visit her, as he did us, but he always insisted on being one of the party even then. He puzzled us: but the strongest impression he gave us was that he was jealous of her; afraid she would get as fond of some others as of him, and so another man might be able to work her, and his own nose lose a joint as the saying is; later on we leafned to put a different interpretation on his conduct. Pippin the Italian, and Bernard the Frenchman, used Being mightily curious to know how he had gained such influence with her, I made several attempts to sound him, but drunk or sober he was equally unfathomable on this point. I then endeavoured to slake my curiosity at No. 2. I made bold to ask M. Huguet how he had won her affections. The Frenchman was as communicative as the native was reserved: he broke plenty of English over me: it came to this, that the strongest feeling of an elephant was gratitude and that he had worked on this for years; was always kind to her and seldom approached her without giving her lumps of sugar--carried a pocket full on purpose. This tallied with what I had heard and read of an elephant: still the problem remained why is she fonder still of this Tom Elliot whose manner is not ingratiating and who never speaks to her but in a harsh severe voice. She stood my friend any way: a good many new supers were engaged to play with her, and I was set over these, looked out their dresses and went on with them and her as a slave: nine shillings a week for this was added to my other nine which I drew for dressing an actor or two of the higher class. The more I was about her the more I felt that we were not at the bottom of this qu...