... riences, of passing the eve of this present year of grace in carving roast heef and ladling out baked potatoes in a thieves kitchen in the wilds of Shoreditch to a gang of habitual criminals, one of whom had the candour to inform me that but for the regis ...

... Well, replied the labourer, I'll tell you how it was, sir. You see my master has an almanac by a fellow named Murphy in the kitchen, and looking at it this morning I saw that he had put down the weather for to day as bright and fine. But he is such a con- ...