. Thackerayana;. on his own floor. His wife retaliated by seizing a pan of hogs-blood, which unluckily stood on the dresser, and, discharging itscontents in the good parsons face, rendered him a horrible spec-tacle. Mrs. Slipshod entered the kitchen at this critical moment, JOSEPH ANDREWS. 79 and attacked the hostess with a skill developed by practice, tear-ing her cap, uprooting handfuls of hair, and delivering a successionof dexterous facers. Parson Adams, when he required a trifling loan, ventured towait on the swinish Parson Trulliber, whose wife introducedAdams in error, as a man come for
. Thackerayana;. on his own floor. His wife retaliated by seizing a pan of hogs-blood, which unluckily stood on the dresser, and, discharging itscontents in the good parsons face, rendered him a horrible spec-tacle. Mrs. Slipshod entered the kitchen at this critical moment, JOSEPH ANDREWS. 79 and attacked the hostess with a skill developed by practice, tear-ing her cap, uprooting handfuls of hair, and delivering a successionof dexterous facers. Parson Adams, when he required a trifling loan, ventured towait on the swinish Parson Trulliber, whose wife introducedAdams in error, as a man come for some of his hogs. Trulliberasserted that his animals were all pure fat, and upwards of twenty-score a piece; he then dragged the parson into his stye, which. was but two steps from his parlour-window, insisting that he should examine them before he would speak one word with him. Adams, whose natural complacence was beyond any artifice, was obliged to comply before he was suffered to explain himself, and laying hold of one of their tails, the wanton beast gave such a sudden spring that he threw poor Adams all along in the mire. Trulliber, instead of assisting him to get up, burst into laughter, and, entering the stye, said to Adams, with some contempt, Why, dost not know how to handle a hog? To those writers whose heroes are of their owncreation, and whose brains are the chaos whence alltheir materials are collected—one may apply thesaying of Balzac regarding Aristotle, that they area second nature, for they have no communica-tion with the first, by which authors of an in-ferior class, who cannot stand alone, are obliged to support them-selves as with crutches; but these of whom I am now speaking
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