But he made a faithful report.
"It was this way, sir," he said, trying to speak calmly.

"A boy of fifteen, very poorly dressed--in rags almost--came crying and asking for the prisoner.

He said the prisoner was his father." "How did he know that, when the prisoner gave no name and was arrested only last night ?" "The boy--Billy Tyke his name is, so I suppose the father is called Tyke also--says his father went out last night.

He was always a drunkard, and left the boy to starve.

The boy followed him later, and knowing he would be on the burst, went to the public-house, where the man was arrested for passing the bad shilling.