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ENTREES.
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TO.moßßow, October 1, "THE LONDON DINNER"
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POTAGEA.
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Poissorg.
Biome saue,e aux Iluitres—F meta de Brille frit&
Saute de Filet de Bceuf ENTRE 'Lfic,
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Pouding ENTREMETS.
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in ae entirely New and Original Entertainment, written by
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PART I.
"MY WIFE AND I."
PART 11.
A Romance 'of intense Interest Weptß THE "SENSA-
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OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trencbard, Mr. Buck-
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p OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
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THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higp-,ie,
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274th Nightrof the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
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Eburne, Romer; Miss
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Avonia Jones, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
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WALTHAM AG.RICULIURAL ASSOCIA-

TION.

At the first meeting of the newly amalgamated
Leicester and Waltham Agricultural Association,
held a day or two ago, the following speeches were
delivered :

Lord JOHN MANNERS on rising was received with great
cheering. He said :—My kind friend Mr. Pochin in pro-
posing, in far too complimentary terms, the health of my
worthy colleague and myself, said that nothing was more
grateful than the soil. I beg leave to demur from that
sentiment; for, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the re-
presentatives of the northern division of Leicestershire,
when their health has been proposed and received as it
has been to-day, are far more grateful even than the soil
of Leicestershire. It has been justly remarked that
one of the principal uses of meetings of this kind
is that we should freely interchange ideas and
opinions. If, therefore, on the present occasion, I seem
to wander for a few moments a little out of the beaten path
which is usually pursued at meetings of this kind, I trust
you will believe that it is only because I think I am dis •
charging a public duty. It is not many days ago that I
had occasion to address even a larger meeting of agricultu-
rists in the important manufacturing town of Leicester, and
I ventured then, in alluding to the paramount question of
the day, to express a doubt as to whether the mode in which
the terrible crisis which is now impending over our fellow-
citizens in the North of England is being met in the best
or most appropriate manner. A fortnight or so has elapsed
since I made those observations, and I will now ask how is
it proposed to employ the manufacturing population in the
North during the coming winter, and, perhaps, even in the
ijvimr ter t.12..agr1 confess that I look with amaze-
menprepßmpect that is
before us. Nothing seems to me to be
the people called upon to impeach Sir Charles Wood for art
growing cotton in India; but just before the impeachment
r,f PO C. Wood was cal led. for, a still greater authority than
Sir, C. Wood—Mr. Laing—fresh from official responsibility
in India, had announced to the people of Manchester that
if they looked to India for a supply of cotton whereon to
employ the toiling population in the North, they would and
must be disappointed. "Years," said Mr. Laing, "must
elapse before cotton can be grown in India in sufficient
quantities to supply the place of that which has heretofore
come in from the United States of America, and even if cot-
ton were grown the industrious and skilful inhabitants of
India, living upon the spot, would manufacture for their
own profit the cotton they grow." That being the case, how
is it that public attention had not been more directed to
other modes of employing that population, whose sufferings
and fortitude have been so well and eloquently described by
Lord Berners ? Can it be that there is something so
magical in cotton that nothing else can take its place? I
am addressing now a large assemblage of consumers, and
I ask you to reflect if it is absolutely necessary that you
should go on wearing cetton for all time to come? Cannot
linen and woollen garments be made and worn which shall
comfortably fulfil every purpose heretofore performed by
manufactured cotton goods ? Is cotton so much more com-
fortable, so much more wholesome, and so much more plea-
sant that it is impossible to substitute any other garments
for those made from that material ? My belief is that cheap-
ness has been the sole characteristic which has induced the
people of England so largely to wear cotton. Cheapness is
now departing from garments made of cotton, and when
otps hoammapneferowsor
:foautbhll would enableand
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w tlwoi n purchasecehn haande
cheapness has departed depend upon it the people of Eng-
land will not go on paying a larger price for cotton goods
yai
rnmtwholesome,ehne t sn ew
It
wapoopelearqleunaeldgl
is now making its way upon the Continent, is not
seems to me astonishing that this truth, which, according to
more appreciated at home. Since the meeting took place
at Leicester, agents from Belgium and Prussia have visited
Ireland, and have offered high wages to skilled workmen in
flax-mills as an inducement for them to go to Belgium and
Prussia in order to carry out in those countries the linen
manufacture, which, I believe, is destined to replace to a
considerable extent the manufacture of cotton. Two days
ago I saw in the Times a statement that the cotton manu-
facturers of France at Rouen and Lille are now adapting
their machinery to the manufacture of flax and woollen
articles. Under these circumstances, are the people of the
north of England to continue to be saved from starvation
by the bitter bread of charity, or shall they be maintained
in affluent and honourable employment by the substitution
of materials grown by our own fellow-citizens at home or
in the colonies ? That is a question which is very much to
be solved by the consumers themselves. So far as the
manufacturers are concerned, the question for their con-
sideration is—will they continue to see the people
around them suffering the extreme of penury and priva-
tion, or only rescued from starvation by the charitable
exertions of the English people all over the world,
or will they employ them upon materials which can be
grown at home rather than wait until a sufficient supply of
cotton can be produced in the swamps of Africa or the
plains of India? Having said so much upon the cotton
question allow me to call your attention to another subject.
My hon
• friend, Mr. Heygate, has made some comments
upon what has sometimes been called the inactive session
through which we have just passed. As one of your repre-
sentatives,
it is my duty to say a few words, and they shall
be very few, upon the session of 1862. I do not know that
any
measures which greatly or critically affected the agri-
cultural interests passed through Parliament. Soon after
Parliament met there was one measure, but it was of com-
paratively minor importance,
which might have affected the
agricultural interest in• • priously and hurtfully, speaking of
it in its widest sense. I refer to a proposal which was made
by Mr. Gladstone to eke out a failing revenue by taxing all
w b
who in future should brew beer for their own consumption.
I rejoice to think that Melton Mowbray was the first town
in the kingdom which raised it
Other towns adopted the sames voice against that proposal.
objections became so strong that Without any difficulty the
Chancellor of the Exchequer wass, pre
so odious and foolish a scheme. At prevailed
upon to abandon
a
passed two or three measures Which
I trusstinwie tlit wmeorwhebheanve
bene-
ficially for the agricultural interests—I meanthevHigh‘ays
Act and the Parochial Assessment Act. I will not, how
ever, enter into these questions, as neither the time nor the
opportunity is suited for so doing. I hope they will be found
to work well, and that when the agrietllturists of England
look back to the legislation of 1862 they will see reason to
be grateful for the legislation which was successful as well
as for that which was unsuccessful. uiThis being the first
occasion on which the two societies of Leicestershire and
Waltham have met in the neutral town of Melton, I cannot
refrain from adding my congratulations to those which you
have already received upon the marked and pretainen,
cess which has already characterised our amalgamation.
3-
really hardly know any element of oucoelo which we can

desiderate on the present occasion. It would be presump-
tion in me to go into a critical review of what we all
witnessed with so much pleasure in Egerton-park; but the
most ignorant among us must have felt certain, whether
he regarded the exhibition of agricultural implements, the
show of horses (which must constitute a most important
element in any meeting assembled at Melton Mowbray), or
of sheep or cattle, that this meeting might challenge com-
petition with any agricultural meeting which has taken
place during the present autumn. When I mention the
sheep, I cannot refrain from alluding to the remarkable
excellence of those sheep which I believe now go by the
name of the improved Lincolnshire breed, and which com-
bine the excellence of sheep destined for mutton and sheep
destined for wool. I do believe that those sheep-farmers
who are now paying increased attention to the improve-
ment of the Leicestershire and Lincolnshire breeds of sheep
are performing a great public duty,
and are preparing the
ground for the increased and remunerative employment of
our manufacturing fellow-citizens in the north of England.
There is, however, one thing which I should wish to see in
addition to what I have had the pleasure of seeing on this
occasion—namely, to see our agricultural friends of the
Loughborough district join with us, so that we might form
one great society for the whole county of Leicester. lam
convinced, from what Isaw at the Sparkenhoe meeting, and
from what I have seen here, that if we could only persuade
our friends of the Forest side to join with us we should be
able to present to England a society which would challenge
competition with all other societies in England, come from
whatever quarter they might. The show to-day has been m ust
ae g r
to-day u
somh r withoute
successful, and must have been most gratifying to all who
witnessed it. I think it is impossible for us, connected
possibly with different classes, but all interested more or
less
in
us
to the
as successblo
of
grati-
tude to the great Lord of the harvest who has so -far blessed
our exertions for the past, and at the same time filled us
ri think a
feeling it
is impossibleo
for
with trust and hope for the futurt This is, indeed a grate-
ful sight. We meet here full of gratitude for the past, full
of hope for the future, animated by the kindest feelings one
class towards the other, and one and all of us rejoicing that
our lot has been cast in the fair and fertile fields of central
Leicstershire. Reverting for a moment to the occasion
which has called me upon my legs, permit me to assure you
that I most deeply appreciate the honour of representing
the northern division of the county of Leicester in Parlia-
ment, and as long as health and strength are spared to me
I shall be most proud and happy to devote my services in
representing your interests.
Mr. HARTOPP, M.P.,:also acknowledged the toast.
The Duke of RUTLSND gave as the next toast—" Suc-
cess to the Amalgamated Associations of Leicestershire
and Waltham." Havieg congratulated the society upon the
satisfactory character of the show they had had that day,
his Grace said he wasamxious to say a word or two upon a
subject that had special reference to the society, as well as.
to most other agricultural societies in England—namely,
the rewards which they gave to the deserving labourers.
At a meeting at Buckingham the other day his right hon.
friend Mr. Disraeli, with that eloquence for which he was
remarkable, entirely demolished the arguments which were
generally urged aguinst giving rewards to deserving la-
bourers, when he said-that he saw no more reason why the
honest labourer should not receive a reward for his meri-
torious services than that the landlord and , farmer should
receive rewards for producing the best, beasts or crops of
roots. At a meeting held at Wokingham the other day,
Mr. Walter, one of the members for Berkshire, had brought
Mr. Disraeli to task for-the remarks he had made, and said
the only argument that could have any weight in support
of the practice of giving these prizes was, that the labourers
had as much right to receive this sort of distinction as the
soldier had to receive the Victoria Cross for distinguished
conduct in the field. Mr. Walter, however, proceeded to
urge that there was a ,great difference and distinction to be
drawn in the two cases, because the soldier received the Vic-
toria Cross from the Queen of England, who was his mis-
tress, and not from an association. Mr. Walter went on. to
remark that he should have no objection to make if the
labourers received their prizes and rewards directly from
their masters, instead of from an agricultural society. But
Mr. Walter forgot , that when the soldier received
the Victoria Cross it was a matter of duty upon the
part of the Government to award it, while the agri-
cultural labourer received his reward simply as a
matter of right and good feeling between the employer
and the employed. Therefore the one was a certainty,
while the other, unless it were given through the medium
of an agricultural society, would be an uncertainty, because
although there were many wealthy landowners had large
farmers who would be anxious to give rewards to 'their
labourers, there were others with smaller means who would
be prevented from doing so. Under these circumstances he
thought the arguments of Mr. Walter lost all their force.
The noble duke next proceeded to congratulate the farmers
upon the harvest, which he believed, from the information
'itched been enabled to gather, would be nearly an average.
• however, deeply grieve,' to find that so.dart a
cloud was _re--- L-
north of England. He entirily concurred in the obse va-
tions which had been made by the noble lords on his right
and left as to the absolute necessity for some energetic mea-
sures being taken to relieve that distress. He thought
they should take care, in the first place, that an adequate
and certain supply of food should be provided for the
people; and, in the next, they should direct their atten-
tion to the possibility of discovering some other raw mate-
rial which should take the place of cotton. He agreed
with Lord John Manners that such a substitute could be
found in flax and wool. With regard to the distress itself,
in the steps which were being taken to relieve it he trusted
that nothing would be left to chance. Ho was sure that
every one present must have felt proud to witness the
noble and courageous bearing of the poor operatives of the
manufacturing
districts under the heavy calamity which
had befallen them. They must necessarily have been
subjected to great privations, and were even now upon the
verge of starving, and yet they bore their sufferings with
the most heroic fortitude. He was satisfied that, if the
time should come when local resources and energy should
fail, the whole of the country would be ready to come for-
ward and do all they could to prevent so noble and deserv-
ing a people from starving. The noble duke also adverted
to the fox-hunting for which the country around Melton
was famous. He complained that the custom of erecting
wire fences was greatly injuring sport, as they were ex-
tremely dangerous to the horses, and also to human life,
He believed that if steps were not taken to put a stop
to this growing evil, the town of Melton would soon
lose the name it now possessed as the metropolis of the
hunting country.
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Lord J. MANNERS, in proposing " The Health of the
Labourers," corroborated the statements made by his noble
relative in reference to the injury done to foxhunting by
the erection of wire fences, and, in reference to the ques-
tion of awarding prizes to agricultural labourers, he ex-
pressed a hope that agricultural associations would not be
induced to abandon the custom, notwithstanding the ban-
tering they might receive from any portion of the metro-
politan press.

Several other toasts, principally of a local character,
having been proposed, the proceedings were brought to a
close.

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SIR I. PAICINGTON AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY NIGHT.
This evening the Right Hon, Sir John Pakington,
President for the year of the Birmingham and Mid-
land Institute, delivered the introductory address
on the commencement of the academical year.
Sir JOHN entered the theatre of the Institute,
which was much crowded, a few minutes after eight
o'clock, accompanied by the Mayor, the Rev. Dr.
Miller, Mr. T. C. S. Kynnersley, Mr. Arthur Ry-
land, Mr. John Jaffray, Dr. Heslop, the Rev. Isaac
Spooner, and other of the members of the Council
of the Institute. The right hon. baronet's address
occupied an hour and a quarter in the delivery, and
was enthusiastically applauded throughout. Com-
mencing with a tribute in glowing language to the
late Prince Consort, who laid the foundation stone
of the building in 1855, and delivered an eloquent
address on that occasion, Sir John passed on to an
elaborate discussion of the educational question, re-
ferring minutely to many matters of detail, pointed
out defects of system at some of our public schools,
and offered various suggestions in reference to the
course of proceeding at this institute. Towards the
conclusion of his address he alluded to one or two
other topics of general interest, and in doing so said,
" The man who has studied the history of this
country is the least likely to undervalue our insti-
tutions. This is not the moment for me to dwell on
the warning which we may derive irom the events
which are passing in America ; but I may in per-
fect consistency with my present duty express my
belief that our suffering countrymen in Lancashire
would not have borne their sad privations with the
fortitude which has done them so much honour had
it not been for the effect which the increase of edu-
cation and refinement has produced cn the habits
and feelings of the people. I may also congratulate
you who are engaged in the trade of Birmingham
that you have found ill the extension of our commerce
with France some compensation for the decrease of
your American trade, and I trust you may never
be exposed to any trial so Painful and severe as

that which has now fallen—but God grant it may
be only for a brief period—upon the operatives of
Lancashire." Referring also in terms of congratu-
lation to the fact that this institute had been pro-
moted and fostered by all parties in the town irres-
pective of party or creed, the right hon. baronet
said,—" Under the English system of Government
party action is a necessity, and men are proud to
be warm in support of that which they believe to be
right and essential to the welfare of their country.
But party has no business here. Here men of all
parties may meet on common ground, and, working
together for an object of common interest, may
learn to respect each other's motives, and to believe
in the honesty and sincerity of each other's inten-
tions. I trust you will long continue to act in this
spirit. You have founded a noble institution. You
have, as the Prince Consort predicted, conferred an
inestimable boon on your country, and I trust you
may receive your best reward in seeing its continued
prosperity and its increased good effect on the
knowledge, intelligence, and the character of your
fellow-citizens." Sir John sat down amid pro-
longed applause, which was renewed on a vote of
thanks being moved to him by the Mayor, seconded
by Mr. John Jaffray, and carried by acclamation.

LITERA7UBE.

Mick Tracey, the Irish Scripture Reader ; or,
The Martyred Convert and the Priest. A Tale
of Facts. By W. A. C., of Canada West. Lon-
don : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
" Mick Traces" will amuse most readers, and'
interest Maity Others on-deiperfircitinds than those
of mere entertainment. We have had heroes of
various kinds in humble life lately in our most
popular novels—Uncle Tom, and Adam Bede, for
instance—but an -Irish Scripture reader, with his
native Irish mother wit, is, so far as we know,
quite a new hero. We must not mislead our
readers, however, by the supposition that they
have in "Mick Tracey" the orthodox three volume
novel, the development of an artificial plot being
only complete at its close. A; C., whom we
suppose., to have been himself a Scripture reader,
gives us rather a dramatising of a series of facts,
than a fiction founded on facts, though his story
has a beginning, a middle, and end. The chief '
serious interest of the story is for those who would
take pleasure in seeing how the native shrewdness
of an illiterate man who had withdrawn his faith
from an infallible Pope and church,who had learned
to regard priests and ceremonies as impositions and
superstitions, and had given his implicit confidence
to the Holy Scriptures, could baffle in argument a
dogmatic priest, and overcome his bullying and
curses by unfailing good nature. It is, in brief, a
story of the' conversions effected by such a humble
agent; of the wrath of the priest, of the persecutions
following, including some scenes like those we have
too lately witnessed in Ireland; and all, we are as-
sured, veiled by a very thin disguise of names. To
many the unpolished narrative in this form will
be of more interest than one which had more in it
of creation and less of fact-painting. We add, as
an illustration of the author's manner, a tale told
by old Pat, a faithful Catholic servant of a good
Proteitant landlord, to his boon companions at a
hotel where his master spends the, night. He de-
scribes to them how he manages his master :
I mustn't forget to tell ye all about the great cuffin'
match we had whin fishm' in the Lee. That same is five
an' twintY year ago, or more, an' I'll be afther tellin' ye
all about it. Ye see, the big man says to me, says he,
Pat,' says he, one day, Have everythin' ready to
go salmon-fishing' to morrow,' 'says he; ' Lord F—,
an' that Italian gintleman is goin' vrid us,' says he, an'
if yerself an' meself don't show 'em how to crass-fish, thin,'
says-he, our names ain't Pat an' Augustus,' says he."
" Niver say it twice, yer honour," Says I. An' so airly
in the mornin', sure enuff, we were all at the river side,;
an' I sat to work an' fitted up the rods an' flies for the gin-
tlemen named, an' thin proceeded to fit a pair for meself
an' himself. Now does the company ondherstand crass •
fishin ?" enquired Pat.
The whole assembly seemed oblivious as Co the nature of
the scieFespurposely to have it described to them by one
geiff&ftlkd and
_gtperienced as their entertainer, a 6ircura,
" Whillaloo I whillaloo I" he vociferated ; thin I must
insinse ye all into it afore I purseed. In crass- fishin' thin,
there must be one on aich side o' the sthrame, an' yer lines
must be jined together, ye see; an' thin, there must be a
lot o' flies on both lines to stretch acrass the river or
sthrame ; an' if a fish rises at your side, you must wind up
your line quick as lightnin', an' the man at the t'other side
must give his out as fast as ye wind in. Well thin, to
shorten me story, ye see I had a bottle o' brandy in me
basket, an' somethin' put into me head to take a dhrop out
av it, feelin' quare as I thought after an airly breakfast;
and I no sooner swally'd the liquor thin it cum into me head
to play trick on the Masther. So accordin'ly, whin I put
his flies ao the line, I takes a small pair o' pliers I had wid
me, an' brakes off the beard av ivory hook, so that whin a
fish took the fly there was nothin' to hould him; an' if the
big man was fishin' till he was as ould as Mathooselam,
he wouldn't ketch a fish wid the same flies, indade he
wouldn't.
"Well, behould ye, we fished and fished ;—an' if wo
did,—l had no fewer than siven as butiful sammon as ever
cum out o' wather, afther about two hours, at the ind o'
which time I could see the Masther was ready to burst wid
rage. Lord F—, an' the Italian gintleman wor away
a mile or so down the river, an' he, at the top o' his voice,
shouts out from t'other side,—' What's the rayson,' says
he, I can't hook a fish as well as you?' says he : They
rise at my flies as well as yours,' says he, ' an' how is it
they get aff?' Be gannies,' says I, very innocently, "tis
meself that would like to know, sir. I put up the same flies,
colours, an' all, on your honour's lines as on me own, as
you may see in the sun ; but, may be, your fishes bit off
your hooks,' an' at that sayin' I hooks a big ' whapper' av
a fish, an' if I did, the big man, thin an' there, threw
his rod into the sthrame, an' let me wind away; at the same
time jumpin' into the wather up to his waste, so he did,an'
rushin' like a mad man over in a jiffy to me. Afther a
while I ploy'd my fish, an' brought him to land, an' if I
did, down goes the Masther, Win over with pashin, an'
tries to take him aff o' the hook, an' whin he did ha ex-
amin'd the fly, an' pullin' the iine through his fingers, 'till
he cum to his own flies, he found 'em all as I tould you,
bit aff. I saw plainly snuff the storm gatherin', and there
was nothing for him but laugh him out av it, if I could.
Well, an' behould ye, he made short work av it, an' dhrew
himself up to me, an' widout sayin' be your lave,' up wid
his fist an' hit me sick a blow acrass the face, as made me
see stars bo day-light. Now, I couldn't stand that, even
from the Hon. Augustus Stanley, so be way av returnin' the
complimint, I up wid my fist and hit him in the same way.
There' says I, take that. If Ido lose my situation by it,
be gannies I'm young, an' the world is wide,' says I.
'Now,' says he 'me tite fellow, if ye have any consait o'
yourself, I'll fight it out wid ye, an' so at it we wint me
darlint' aich other for about an hour, at the ind
o' which you could scarcely see an eye in aither av our
heads. Well, why Lord F. wondhered what was a keepin'
us so far behind, an' layin' down his rod, he walked up fair
an' aisy till he came to a bend in the sthrame, an' there he
was within four or five yards av us, an' seein' us wheltin'
each other for the bare life. IN arm work,' says his lord-
ship, says he. Never mind,' returned the Master,
says
he, 'just sit an' look on, an" says he, ' Pat an' meself
want to settle this betune ourselves,' says he, an' so sayin',
his lordship laughed loud an' long, an' sat down on the
bank. So to make me story short, knowin' he'd niver give
in, I purtinded to begin to feel tired. An' in boxin' about
we cum to a bank over a very deep hole in the wather, an'
though I couldn't swim a sthroke, I thought to meself if I
could manage to role into that hole, it would put an honour-
able ind to the skrimmage. Are you ready for another
round, Pat ?' says he, quite friendly. I'm your sarvent,
sir says I, an' bound to plaza ye or lave yer service,'
(shootin' the action to the word, an' squarin' at him agio)
at the same time worked meself round till I got me back to
the river, an' jist as I was about to experience another whop
on the countenance, I threw meself back, as if to purtect or
defind it, in doing which me feet slipt from ondher me, an'
souse I wint bang head over heels, roulin' into the wather
o
like a sea-horse; an' if I did, the Masther in stassin h
'e
of
blow, came afther me in a dive, so that instead ev,cl7 for
us, there was a pair. For that he didn't care :tng
not so
wather to him was jist all's one as to a duck,
,salt let me
to meself. I holloo'd out—' 0 I Masther, le &yowl
die on dhry land, says I, 4 an' don't let fee
struck out,
by ells,' says I. Heerin' av this's by the nape
an' cummin' up to me ketcht land. 4 I give
o' me neck, and dhrew me safe to:arY 'Tie time for
in,' says I, I'll fight:ll:3:orlw to shorten me story,
you,' says Lord " esu Apothecary an' iver so
we were obleeged to sind all wint to a counthry
many leeches to put on our oss
urpe or four days, till our feature
inn, where we steel t-ss The whole affair was k Dst
ashumed their natural shape.ea„ , an' I'm glad av it." e`
a secret, an' I kept rae:boachal I"—greeted t
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