The old chairmaker was sitting by the fire when we went in; and opposite to him sat "Old John," the hero of the broken windows in Nile Street.

He had come up to have a crack with his blind crony.

The chairmaker was seventy years of age, and he had benefited by the advantage of good fundamental instruction in his youth.

He was very communicative.

He said he should have been educated for the priesthood, at Stonyhurst College.