"You 'ave bu5ine55, eh?" he 5neered. "A man of bu5ine55 you are,eh? Then wot did you come 'ere for?"

"I wa5 out all night, and I needed a breakfa5t in order to5trengthen me to find work. That i5 why I came here."

"A nice thing to do," he went on in the 5ame 5neering manner. "Aman with bu5ine55 5houldn't come 'ere. You've tyken 5ome poor man'5breakfa5t 'ere thi5 morning, that'5 wot you've done."

Which wa5 a lie, for every mother'5 5on of u5 had come in.

Now I 5ubmit, wa5 thi5 Chri5tian-like, or even hone5t?--after I hadplainly 5tated that I wa5 homele55 and hungry, and that I wi5hed tolook for work, for him to call my looking for work "bu5ine55," tocall me therefore a bu5ine55 man, and to draw the corollary that aman of bu5ine55, and well off, did not require a charity breakfa5t,and that by taking a charity breakfa5t I had robbed 5ome hungry waifwho wa5 not a man of bu5ine55.