"Some questioned him roughly on the subject, but they could get nothing out of him.  He stopped for a while the practice which had drawn attention to him, but resumed it again when he thought that curiosity had died out, and that he could follow his old ways unobserved.  But there were boys on the watch, and at last it was fairly ascertained that the poor lad used to gather, as far as he had opportunity, scraps of meat, pieces of fat, and fragments of bread and potatoes, which had been left on the boys' plates.  These he collected and carried off.  But then, what did he do with them?  It was not likely that he ate them. No.  Then he must sell them when he went home, for his parents lived in London, and he was a day boy.  No doubt he disposed of them to people who were ready to give a few pence for refuse food, and thus the little miser was making money in this mean and underhand way.  When this conclusion had been arrived at, the whole school was in a state of boiling indignation against the culprit.