water to an alarming extent inwardly. The individual was remarkable, not for what he was, but for what he was not. "Such were my thoughts, gentlemen, and I determined to awake the unconscious sleeper, to see how far my conclusions were right. I shook him well, and accompanied my act with a peremptory order to 'get up.' After a moment he roused himself and looked at me, but immediately dropped his eyes. I commenced a dialogue with him, which, as near as I can recollect, was as follows: "'What are you doing here?' said I. "'Dun'no,' was the response. "'You're certainly quite drunk.' "'Likely.' "'That is an offence against the law.' "'Des'say.' "'You've been arrested for drunkenness before.' "'Werry like. But I 'aven't been a doin' nuthin' helse.' "'But I've arrested you before,' said I, playing the policeman, in order to continue the conversation. "'Des'say, hofficer; but did I hoffer any resistance?' "'Your weight did.' "'Vas it wiolent?' "'You were too drunk to make any violent resistance.' "'Des'say; I honly inquired for hinformation.' "'What's your name?' "'Vich name do you vant to know?' "'Your whole name, of course.' "'Bobinger Thomas.' "'Where were you born, Thomas?' "'Hingland.' "'What is your business?' "'My perwession?' "'Yes.' "'It's warious. I never dabbled with law, physic, or diwinity.' "'I asked you what your profession is--not what it isn't.' "'My perwession now, or vot it used to vos?' "'Your present profession, of course.' "'Vell--nuthin'.' "'Well, what was your profession in the past?' "'Vot do you vant to know for?' "'I shall answer no questions; but you must. Now tell me what your past profession was.' [Illustration] "'Dogs.' "'Are you a dog-fancier?' "'Poss'bly; I fancies dogs.' "'What breed of dogs do you fancy?' "'Them as I gets in Jersey.' "'What do you do with the dogs that you get there?' "'I vouldn't go into the business if I vos in your sitivation. It don't pay any more, 'cause there's so many coves as has inwested. I left 'cause it vos hoverdid.' "'I hadn't the slightest intention of going into the business. I asked you for information.' "'Glad to 'ear you say so. I vos halmost hutterly ruined in it.' "'Well, what do you do with the dogs?' "'I doesn't follow the perwession no more.' "'I asked you what you did with the dogs you picked up in New Jersey.' "'They muzzles dogs now more than they did vonce.' "'Tell me what you did with the dogs.' "'If you nab a cove for gettin' drunk vot do they do vith 'im?' "'Are you going to answer my question?' "'Vill they let me off if I tell vere I got the liquor?' "'Look here, Thomas, answer my question.' "'Vot do they do vith the coves as sells?' "'I shan't trifle with you any longer. If you don't tell me what you do with the dogs, I shall enter a charge of vagrancy against you.' "'Vell, I didn't sell 'em for sassengers.' "'What did you sell them for?' "'I didn't sell 'em.' "'How did you dispose of them?'