10 DIGGING A GRAVE

mud, “ dodged ” among the cabs (it was
not the season for carriages even there),
and disappeared down James street.

“Tg there anything especially wrong with
her mother, Phil?” inquired Mrs. Byrne of
the shoe-black brigade-boy, who was one of
her numerous acquaintances. ae since I have
left Pye street and come to the West-end,—

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not out of any grandeur,” she added, tossing
her head; “only, you know, to be near
_Mary,—I haven’t set eyes on one of the
Livermores until this day, since I don’t
know when! ” | |

“OQ, it sets poor Nelly wild to speak of
her mother to her,”’ answered the lad. “ She’s
‘more trouble to her than her father; it was
her drunkenness and ways that drove him
altogether to the bad. If Nelly catches
‘sight of her, she runs like a hare before
the hounds; poor Livermore is thankful for

the jail that keeps him from his wife and -