Punch
BEN BRUSTLES was only a poor shoeblack-boy who cleaned boots--ay, and even shoes, for his daily bread. Such time as he could spare from his avocation he devoted to diligent study of the doctrine of chance, as exemplified in the practice of pitch-and-toss. Often and often, afte...
But mark the sequel. The good Bishop had been quite ignorant that the threepenny bit was a pewter one; quite sincere, for the time, in his determination to subdue his own weakne...
1. Chapter 1BEN BRUSTLES was only a poor shoeblack-boy who cleaned boots--ay, and even shoes, for his daily bread. Such time as he could spare from his avocation he devoted to diligent stud...
2. Chapter 2"Even as a Curate, a certain harmless vanity was ever my besetting weakness. I might, indeed, have hoped that, after my accident--but see, my good lad, how pride may lurk, even...
3. Chapter 3BRUSTLES obeyed--not without awe, and in a short space of time two pots of blacking were exhausted, and the roseate glow of the Bishop's mahogany limbs was for ever hidden under...