I did my best at this vocation of the law much against the grain, and actually achieved, with Lewin's help, a voluminous will, and a marriage settlement, with some accessory deeds, procured for me by my mother's friend Mr.Hunt, through one Dangerfield, a solicitor.

I have often felt anxious to know how far my conveyancing held water; but the thought of Lewin's skill has comforted me--and besides I have never heard a word about it now for half a century.

My fee for all was fifty guineas--pretty well for a first and last exploit in the way of law and its rewards.
As I am just leaving my father's house for Park Village, and thereafter Albury, here I will insert two little memories of past days when I lived with my parents at No.5.Here is one.

Theodore Hook's famous Berners Street hoax had lately made such exploits very catching among schoolboys--and in my Charterhouse days it was repeated by "Punsonby & Co." at my father's town-house.

On a certain Saturday when I had my weekly holiday at home, I marvelled to find the street crowded with vans, coal-carts, trucks, a mourning coach, fishmongers, butchers, and confectioners with trays, and a number of servants wanting places.