cross, which is all that I shall say in her favour. Timothy was no
favourite, because he had such a good appetite; and it appeared that I
was not very likely to stand well in her good opinion, for I also ate a
great deal, and every extra mouthful I took I sank in her estimation,
till I was nearly at the zero, where Timothy had long been for the same
offence; but Mr Cophagus would not allow her to stint him, saying,
"Little boys must eat--or won't grow--and so on."

I soon found out that we were not only well fed, but in every other
point well treated, and I was very comfortable and happy. Mr Brookes
instructed me in the art of labelling and tying up, and in a very short
time I was very expert; and as Timothy predicted, the rudiments were
once more handed over to him. Mr Cophagus supplied me with good clothes,
but never gave me any pocket-money, and Timothy and I often lamented
that we had not even a halfpenny to spend.

Before I had been many months in the shop Mr Brookes was able to leave
when any exigence required his immediate attendance. I made up the
pills, but he weighed out the quantities in the prescriptions; if,
therefore, any one came in for medicines, I desired them to wait the
return of Mr Brookes, who would be in very soon. One day, when Mr
Brookes was out, and I was sitting behind the counter, Timothy sitting
on it, and swinging his legs to and fro, both lamenting that we had no
pocket-money, Timothy said, "Japhet, I've been puzzling my brains how we
can get some money, and I've hit it at last; let you and I turn doctors;
we won't send all the people away who come when Mr Brookes is out, but
we'll physic them ourselves."

I jumped at the idea, and he had hardly proposed it, when an old woman
came in, and addressing Timothy, said, "That she wanted something for