40 . TROTTY’S WEDDING TOUR.

Bobbit carried half his snow-drift into a baker’s shop with
him. His eyes twinkled a little like the feathers of a shut-
tlecock when you play fast. Was it not enough to justify
any one in feeling like a shuttlecock to have three days’ liv-
ing in his pocket? For you see five cents would buy you two
little rolls and a dotghnut; and to live for two days on ten
cents’ worth of baked beans, why, nothing could be easier ;
especially if you saved your ten cents, and took your beans
hot to-morrow noon.

Now when Bobbit had got into the baker’s shop and bought
his doughnut, he saw two little Irish boys looking in at the
baker’s window.

“That ’s a pity!” said Bobbit; for the two little boys
stood quite still, flattening their noses on the glass ; they had
ragged hats and holes in their shoes, and they stood in a
snow-drift as Bobbit had done. Now when two little boys
will stand still in the throat of a sleet-storm to look in ata
baker’s window, it generally means that they do it for good
reasons ; and Bobbit had done it so many times himself, that
he looked very wise when he said, “ That’s a pity.” He
looked at his doughnut too, then at the window, then at the
doughnut; so, back and forth, as he would if he had been
dodging a Haymarket Square policeman.

“JT will take three doughnuts,” said he to the baker, with
a little gulp, “and three cents’ worth more of bread. Now
I’ve got three cents left. Won’t you just hand over a few
cold beans ?”