o � ver roared a fifth while numerous voices in desiring mr thomas to go home to his mother all these mr thomas received with supreme contempt the low crowned hat a little more on one side whenever any reference waa made to his personal appearance aiid standing up with his arms a expressing defiance the � to which these various sounds had been an ad accompaniment � concluded the second piece began and mr thomas by proceeded to behave in a most sketches by and outrageous manner first of all he the shake of the principal female singer then groaned at the blue fire then affected to be frightened into of terror at the appearance of the ghost and lastly not only made a running in an audible voice upon the dialogue on the stage but actually awoke mr robert who hearing his companion making a noise and having a very indistinct notion where he was or what was required of him immediately by way of a good example set up the most and appalling howling that ever audience heard it was too much turn them out i was the general cry a noise as of shuffling of feet and men being knocked up with violence against was heard a hurried dialogue of come out � i won t � you shall � � i shan t � give me your card sir � you re a scoundrel sir and so forth succeeded a round of applause the approbation of the audience and mr robert and mr thomas found themselves shot with astonishing swiftness into the road without having had the trouble of once putting foot to ground during the whole progress of their rapid descent mr robert being one of the slow and having had quite enough of fast going in the course of his recent to last until the quarter day then next at the very least had no sooner emerged with his companion from the of milton street than he proceeded to indulge in to the beauties of sleep mingled with distant allusions to the propriety of returning to and the influence of their patent over the locks to which they belonged mr making a night of it thomas however was and thej had come out to make a night of it and a night must be made so mr robert who was three parts dull and the other dismal assented and they went into a wine to get materials for assisting them in making a night where they found a good many young ladies and various old gentlemen and a plentiful of and cab drivers all drinking and talking together mr thomas and mr robert drank glasses of brandy and large glasses of until they began to have a very confused idea either of things in general or of anything in particular and when they had done treating themselves they began to treat everybody else and the rest of the was a confused mixture of heads and heels black eyes and blue mud and gas lights thick doors and stone then as standard inform us � all was a blank and in the morning the blank was filled up with the words station house and the station house was filled up with mr thomas mr robert and the major part of their wine vault companions of the preceding night with a comparatively small portion of clothing of any kind and it was disclosed at the police office to the indignation of the bench and the astonishment of the spectators how one robert aided and by one thomas had knocked down and beaten in divers streets at different times five men four boys and three women how the said thomas had obtained possession of five door two bell handles and a bonnet how robert his friend had sworn at sketches by least forty pounds worth of oaths at the rate of five shillings a piece terrified whole streets full of her majesty s subjects with awful shrieks and of fire destroyed the of five and committed various other too numerous to and the magistrate after an appropriate mr thomas and mr robert ye shillings each for being what the law terms drunk and thirty four pounds for seventeen at forty shillings a head with liberty to speak to the the were spoken to and messrs and lived on credit for a quarter as best they might and although the expressed their readiness to be twice a week on the same terms they have never since been detected in making a night of it chapter xii the prisoners van we were passing the comer of bow street on our return from a lounging excursion the other afternoon when a crowd assembled round the door of the attracted our attention we up the street accordingly there were thirty or forty people standing on the pavement and half across the road and a few were patiently stationed on the opposite side of the way � all evidently waiting in expectation of the bs van some we waited too a few bnt nothing occurred so we turned round to an who was standing next us with his hands under the of his apron and put the usual question of what s the matter the eyed us from head to foot with contempt and replied now we were perfectly aware that if two men stop in the street to look at any given object or even to gaze in the air two hundred men will be assembled in no time but as we knew very well that no crowd of people could by possibility remain in a street for five minutes without getting up a little amusement among themselves unless they had some absorbing object in view the natural inquiry next in order was what are all these people � her majesty s carriage the this was still more extraordinary we could not imagine what earthly business her majesty s carriage 