text:  And further as Jack had always a great hankering after little-goes and penny subscriptions of every kind and was eternally trumpeting forth some new nostrum or _scheme_ of this kind as he used to call it the Squire had been prevailed upon to purchase from him a good many tickets for these schemes from time to time for which he always paid in hard cash though I have never heard that any of them turned up prizes except it may have been to Jack himself