While as to the butlers, they, indeed, were dignitaries to be viewed and revered from a distance. Once, in his inexperience, Billy volunteered to assist a Hill Street butler, who brought forth his bicycle to place on a four-wheeler. The man swore at him. But as Joe, who saw the episode, observed to Billy, “It warn’t no good to expect anything from that sort. A chap like that never did a day’s work in his (sanguinary) life. He was too d----d artful.” With which, Joe, bare-armed and hot, resumed his “hissing,” and vigorously cleaned down his “hoss.” There were a great many little tips to be picked up in Mayfair during the early summer months following Billy’s coming to the district. He arrived after the first demonstration of the Leaguers in Hyde Park, and therefore missed the Sunday visit of the mob to the Westwoods’ house in Hill Street. But after that there was such a stampede from the big houses, that the ubiquitous cab-tout, especially the tout who wore a “spider,” reaped quite a harvest thereabouts. He took care, however, that so weak a competitor as the crippled boy should keep his distance. So Billy, to some extent unintentionally, developed a means of raising money in which no tout could rival him. The pace at which he learnt to hop along was quite amazing; but, not content with that, he took to making high leaps in the air, coming down upon his foot and crutch for the most part without disaster. Then he essayed to dance a little on one leg, after the manner of Donato, a one-legged man who, once upon a time, drew all London to Drury Lane to see him in a pantomime.