So I took two waistcoats--one of them was quite good still,--and I sewed them together, and basted the bank-notes between them.

It was a clumsy piece of tailoring, though it took me so many hours to do it.

But I had put the larger waistcoat outside very cunningly, so that when I had put on the two, you could not see that there was anything beneath the outer one.

I think I was very clever to do this without a woman to help me.

Then I looked to my boots, and chose my oldest clothes,--and you may guess, from what you know of me, how old they were,--and I made a little bundle that I could carry in my hand, with a change of linen, and the like.