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 and striking the table so as to make a regular mark in the mahogany). 'Have you got the money or not? I shan't stop, and Mr. Moses may whistle for his rings if I don't get it now!' I said, speaking loudly.

"'Damn it I yes. Only don't make a row. But he told me only to give you ten pounds and keep the rest!'

"'Give me ninety and keep the ten. I don't mind a fair commission,' I replied, and so we settled it at once, and had a good laugh over the sodding fools, as I stood a bottle of fizz."

After telling me the foregoing tale, he went on:—

"Did you ever hear that I was four years in the Reformatory at Red Hill? That was where I first had a prick up my arse."