"Thank you, Mr Huntingdon, with all my heart," said the other; "you are very kind.  My hobby this time is a very robust animal, and will want a good deal of feeding if he is to keep up his strength.  But to come to plain language, I am collecting subscriptions for a working-men's coffee-house in Redbury--a British Workman they call it.  You know, I dare say, that two ruinous old houses of mine in the market-place are being pulled down.  Now, I am going to give the ground which one of them stands on for the new coffee-house.  It is a capital situation, just in the centre of the town.  I shall want funds, however, for the erection of a new and suitable building, and also a few annual subscriptions to keep the establishment going and pay the expenses of management, as I don't suppose it will be self-supporting, at any rate not at first."