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of his festivities a little beyond the season allowed by Moore's Almanack, and having in vain applied the usual remedies prescribed on such occasions, he at length consented

ervation from him. The morning after this change for the better, he addressed his companion at breakfast as follows: "Blow me tight, Mr. York, if I arn't regularly renowated. I'm as fresh as an old hat after a shower of rain. I really thinks I shall get over this terrible illness, for I dreamt of 'unting last night, and, if you've a mind, we'll go and see my Lord Segrave's reynard dog, and then start from this 'ere corrupt place, for, you see, it's nothing but a town, and what's the use of sticking oneself in a little pokey lodging like this 'ere, where there really is not room to swing a cat, and paying the deuce knows how much tin, too, when one has a splendid house in Great Coram Street going on all the time, with a rigler establishment of servants and all that sort of thing. Now, you knows, I doesn't grudge a wisit to Margate, though that's a town too, but then, you see, one has the sea to look at, whereas here, it's nothing but a long street with shops, not so good as those in Red Lion Street, with a few small streets branching off from it, and as to the prommenard

ce more like a flock of sheep than anything else. Jorrocks, being all right again and up to anything, proposed a start to the wood, and though he thought they should hardly reach it before the hounds either killed their fox or he broke away again, they agreed to take the chance, and away they went, "best leg first" as the saying is. The cover (Queen Wood by name, and, as Jorrocks found out from somebody, the property of Lord Ellenborough) being much larger than it at first appeared and the fox but a bad one, they were in lots of time, and having toiled to the top of the wood, Jorrocks swaggered in among the horsemen with all the importance of an alderman. For full an hour after they got there the hounds kept running in cover, the fox being repeatedly viewed and the pack continually pressing him. Once or twice he came out, but after skirting the cover's edge a few yards turned in again. Indeed, there were two foxes on foot, one being a three-legged one, and it was extraordinary how he went and stood before hounds, going apparently very cautiously and stopping every now and then to listen. At last a thundering old grey-backed fellow went away before the whole field, making for the steep declivities that lead into the downs, and thoug

y sat down to dinner. The "George" is neither exactly a swell house like the "Royal Hotel" or the "Plough," nor yet a commercial one, but something betwixt and between. The

itees, until he reduced himself to about half the size he was on entering. He was a little square-built old man, with white hair and plenty of it, a long stupid red face with little pig eyes, a very long awkward body, and very short legs. He was dressed in a blue coat, buff waistcoat, a sort of baggy grey or thunde

on, sir," said Jorroc

ry cold riding outside a coach all day long-however, I always say that it's better than being inside, though, indeed, it's very little that I trouble coaches at all in the course of the year-genera

man and one, too, who travelled in his own carriage, he assumed a different tone and commenced

place I chiefly hunt at,-know all the fellows there; rare set o

swell of a fellow coming with his upper lip all over fur into our coun

hat! you hu

ve perhaps heard tel

cktail affai

, I assure you. Cocktai

t it's not what we

mind to make a match, I'll bet you a hat, ay, or half a dozen hats, t

affair, but we Meltonians certainly have a trick, I must confess, of running every other country down; come, sir, I'll drink the Surrey hunt

out-and don't stint for quantity, if you please. Doesn't you think these inns wer

hem over. Just cast my eyes at the bottom to see the amount, then call for pen and ink, add so much for waiter, so much for chamberma

ndful of bills, at some places that I go to they charges me six shillings a day for my dinner, and when I was ill and couldn't digest nothing but the lightest and plainest of breakfasts, when a fork breakfast in fact would have made a stiff 'un of me, and my muffin mill was almost stopped, they charged me two shil

try. Besides, it doesn't do to look too closely at these things, and you must al

s people get out of their houses as quick as ever they can, whereas they might be inclined to stay if they could get things moderate.-For my part I likes a coffee-room, but h

esides no end of oil burning.-I know the expense of these things, for I have a very large house in the country, and re

n is fonder of eating than myself, but I don't like to pay by the mouthful, or yet to drink tea at so much a thimbleful. By the way, Sar, if y

y, with an account of what she pays. I just look at the amount-add so much for wages, and write a cheque-"live and let live!" say I. However, added he, pulling out hi

ed to canvass their departed friend. Jorrocks began-"I say, wot a regular swell the chap is-a Meltonian, too.-I wonders who the deuce he is. Wish Mr. Nimrod was among us, he could tell us all about him, I dare say. I'm blowed if I didn't take him for a commercial gentleman at first, unti

ing as recognising them unless you had a previous acquaintance with them. The fields in Leicestershire are sometimes so large that it requires a r

one side of the fire, had watched the stranger very narrowly without joining in the conversation.

ravel in a carriage you know, and he talked about greasing the wheels a

ay travel in the rumble and pay for greasing the wheel

" observed another, "who has come into money unexpectedly, and

we always make ourselves at home and agreeable-have a word for everybody in fact, and no reserve; besides, you see, there was nothing gamm

"dress him as you will, court suit, bag wig, and sw

s is yours, Mr. York, with the loop to it, and here's mine-I always writes Golgotha in mine, which being interpreted, you know, means the place of a skull. These are yours, I presume,

to prove it?" in

Call in

him, and a waiter's gentleman is

ite message upstairs, saying that two gentlemen in the coffee-room have bet a trifle that he is some noblema

a hat," replied the youth, "that

ck, whichever you like, but none o' your dog hairs or gossamers, mind-that he's a man of dibs, and doesn

gentleman a hat that he's a Meltoni

o you take me, sir? A guine

said t

w ring the bell for th

r wa

nd, waiter! here, pray who is that gentleman that came in by the Liverpool coach to-night? The lit

et me see, what's his name? He keeps that large Hotel in-- Street, Liverpool-wha

aid he, "no such thing-you're thinking of someone else. The gent

to Bristol, he was in one of his own rattle-trap yellows, and had such a load-his wife, a nurse, and eight

done in all my life-a gammonacious fellow! "There, sir, there's your one pound one," said he, handing a sovereign and a shilling to the winner of the hat. "Give me my tile, and let's mizzle.-Waiter, I can't wait; must bring the bill up to my lodgin

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