Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER ONE.
Sunshine Bill, according to the world‘s notion, was not "born with a silver spoon in his mouth；" but he had, which was far better, kind, honest parents. His mother kept an apple-stall at Portsmouth, and his father was part owner of a wherry； but even by their united efforts, in fine weather, they found it hard work to feed and clothe their numerous offspring.
Sometimes Sunshine Bill‘s father was laid up with illness, and sometimes his mother was so； and occasionally he and his brothers and sisters were sick also. Sometimes they had the measles, or small-pox, or a fever； and then there was the doctor to pay, and medicine to buy； consequently, at the end of these visitations, the family cash-box, consisting of an old stocking in a cracked basin, kept on the highest shelf of their sitting-room, was generally empty, and they considered themselves fortunate if they were not in debt besides. Still, no one ever heard them complain, or saw them quarrel, or

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