First, watches and rings, then cloaks, coats, and all the more expensive articles of dress, have found their way to the pawnbroker's.

That miserable resource has failed at last, and the sale of some trifling article at one of these shops, has been the only mode left of raising a shilling or two, to meet the urgent demands of the moment.

Dressing-cases and writing-desks, too old to pawn but too good to keep; guns, fishing-rods, musical instruments, all in the same condition; have first been sold, and the sacrifice has been but slightly felt.

But hunger must be allayed, and what has already become a habit, is easily resorted to, when an emergency arises.

Light articles of clothing, first of the ruined man, then of his wife, at last of their children, even of the youngest, have been parted with, piecemeal.