End opulence we are now considering. Some of

the people on this street are even so well-to-do as to keep a 'slavey.' Johnny Upright keeps one, as I well know, she being my first acquaintance in this particular portion of the world.

An East-End "Slavey."

To Johnny Upright's house I came, and to the door came the slavey. Now, mark you, her position in life was pitiable and contemptible, but it was with pity and contempt that she looked at me. She evinced a plain desire that our conversation

should be short. It was Sunday, and Johnny Up-