. Dicken's works . shall be bailed out to-morrow. Shall you, though ? inquired the , I wish I could say the same. I am asregularly over head and ears as the Royal George,and stand about as much chance of being hailed ! ha! ha! Why, said the young man, stopping short, andspeaking in a very loud key, look at me. Whatdye think Ive stopped here two days for ? Cause you couldnt get out, I suppose, inter-rupted Mr. Walker, winking to the company. Notthat youre exactly obliged to stop here, only youcant help it. No compulsion, you know, only youmust — eh ? Aint he a rum un! inquired
. Dicken's works . shall be bailed out to-morrow. Shall you, though ? inquired the , I wish I could say the same. I am asregularly over head and ears as the Royal George,and stand about as much chance of being hailed ! ha! ha! Why, said the young man, stopping short, andspeaking in a very loud key, look at me. Whatdye think Ive stopped here two days for ? Cause you couldnt get out, I suppose, inter-rupted Mr. Walker, winking to the company. Notthat youre exactly obliged to stop here, only youcant help it. No compulsion, you know, only youmust — eh ? Aint he a rum un! inquired the delightedindividual, who had offered the gin-and-water, ofhis wife. Oh, he just is ! replied the lady, who was quiteovercome by these flashes of imagination. Why, my case, frowned the victim, throwingthe end of his cigar into the fire, and illustratinghis argument by knocking the bottom of the pot onthe table at intervals, — my case is a very singularone. My fathers a man of large property, and I amhis ^om^^^Z^^^^ SKETCHES BY BOZ. 199 Thats a very strange circumstance! interruptedthe jocose Mr. Walker, en passant. — I am. his son, and have received a liberaleducation. I dont owe no man nothing — not thevalue of a farthing, but I was induced, you see, toput my name to some bills for a friend — bills to alarge amount, I may say to a very large amount, forwhich I didnt receive no consideration. Whats theconsequence ? Why, I suppose the bills went out, and youcame in. The acceptances werent taken up, andyou were, eh ? inquired Walker. To be sure, replied the liberally-educated younggentleman. To be sure ; and so here I am, lockedup for a matter of twelve hundred pound. Why dont you ask your old governor to stumpup ? inquired Walker, with a somewhat scepticalair. Oh ! bless you, hed never do it, replied theother in a tone of expostulation. Never ! Well, it is very odd to — be — sure, interposedthe owner of the flat bottle, mixing another glass, but Ive been i
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