'Who wants Mick Maggott ?' Then Caldigate explained the recommendation which Mr.Crinkett had made.

'Well;--I'm darned;--Mick Maggott?
I'm Mick Maggott, myself.' Before the evening was over an arrangement had been made between the parties, and had even been written on paper and signed by all the three.
Mick on the morrow was to proceed to Ahalala with his new comrades, and was to remain with them for a month, assisting them in all their views; and for this he was to receive ten shillings a-day.

But, in the event of his getting drunk, he was to be liable to dismissal at once.

Mick pleaded hard for one bout of drinking during the month;--but when Dick explained that one bout might last for the entire time, he acknowledged that the objection was reasonable and assented to the terms proposed..