Bartiromo will grab a Slim Jim and a Red Bull, and maybe a scratcher lottery ticket from the machine.

Turning to Scratcher, who was passing at the moment, he enquired, "Wot the 'ell am I a-goin' to call 'im?"

It was Scratcher, however, who told the puzzled Bindle that the customer had been ordering lunch and not divulging his identity.

And he took up his cage and went towards the scratcher of dust-heaps, and the men went with him.