“Come,” said our friend, glancing at a notable shillelah the man had under his arm, “let me undeceive you. I don’t want anything of you, and I am very glad you have got your money back. But I suppose you’d stand by me, now, if I wanted a boy to help me in any little skirmish?” They were standing by a window on the top storey of the Bank, commanding a courtyard, where a sentry was on duty. To our friend’s amazement, the man dashed out of the room without speaking one word, suddenly appeared in the courtyard, performed a war-dance round this astonished soldier--who was a modest young recruit--made the shillelah flutter, like a wooden butterfly, round his musket, round his bayonet, round his head, round his body, round his arms, inside and outside his legs, advanced and retired, rattled it all round him like a firework, looked up at the window, cried out with a high leap in the air, “Whooroo! Thry me!”--vanished--and never was beheld at the Bank again from that time forth. _This day is Published, Price 5s. 6d., neatly Bound in Cloth_, THE FIRST VOLUME OF HOUSEHOLD WORDS. _Publishing Monthly, Price 2d., Stamped, 3d._, THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS. _This Monthly Supplement of Household Words, containing a history of the previous month, is issued regularly with the Magazines._ END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Published at the Office, No 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by BRADBURY & EVANS, Whitefriars, London. Transcriber’s Notes This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. Lines marked with ~= ... =~ were in German Fraktur. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Itemized changes from the original text: On page 32, changed “where-ever” to “wherever”, near “generously subscribed to charities” On page 34, changed “watermark” to “water-mark”, near “paper with the ink or” On page 38, changed “have,” to “have”, near “chemicals, and colours, which have”