You can't keep 'em out." "No, and 'tisn't much use trying," answered the shop-keeper, with a levity of manner not unmarked by Mrs.Bray, who said, "The black sheep have to live as well as the white ones." "Just so.

You hit the nail there." "And I suppose you find their money as good as that of the whitest ?" "Oh yes." "And quite as freely spent ?" "As to that," answered the woman, who was inclined to be talkative and gossipy, "we make more out of the black sheep than out of the white ones.

They don't higgle so about prices.

Not that we have two prices, but you see they don't try to beat us down, and never stop to worry about the cost of a thing if they happen to fancy it.

They look and buy, and there's the end of it." "I understand," remarked Mrs.Bray, with a familiar nod.