They accepted relief just one week, and then the man came and said that he had a PROSPECT of work; and he shouldn't need relief tickets any longer.

It was here that I heard so much about anonymous letters, of which I have given you three samples.

Having said that I should like to see the soup kitchen, one of the committee offered to go with me thither at six o'clock the next morning; and so I came away from the meeting in the cool twilight.
Old Preston looked fine to me in the clear air of that declining day.

I stood a while at the end of the "Bull" gateway.

There was a comical-looking little knock-kneed fellow in the middle of the street -- a wandering minstrel, well known in Preston by the name of "Whistling Jack." There he stood, warbling and waving his band, and looking from side to side,--in vain.