ng in the passages, they are quite in their element,
squeezing, pushing, whooping, and shouting in the most humorous manner
possible. If they can only succeed in irritating the gentleman who has a
family of daughters under his charge, they are like to die with laughing,
and boast of it among their companions for a week afterwards, adding,
that one or two of them were 'devilish fine girls,' and that they really
thought the youngest would have fainted, which was the only thing wanted
to render the joke complete.

If the out-and-out young gentleman have a mother and sisters, of course
he treats them with becoming contempt, inasmuch as they (poor things!)
having no notion of life or gaiety, are far too weak-spirited and moping
for him. Sometimes, however, on a birth-day or at Christmas-time, he
cannot very well help accompanying them to a party at some old friend's,
with which view he comes home when they have been dressed an hour or two,
smelling very strongly of tobacco and spirits, and after exchanging his
rough coat for some more suitable attire (in which however he loses
nothing of the out-and-outer), gets into the coach and grumbles all the
way at his own good nature: his bitter reflections aggravated by the
recollection, that Tom Smith has taken the chair at a little impromptu
dinner at a fighting man's, and that a set-to was to take place on a
dining-table, between the fighting man and his brother-in-law, which is
probably 'coming off' at that very instant.

As the out-and-out young gentleman is by no means at his ease in ladies'
society, he shrinks into a corner of the drawing-room when they reach the
friend's, and unless one of his sisters is kind enough to talk to him,
remains there without being much troubled by the attentions of other
people, until he espies, lingering outside the door, another gentleman,
whom he at once knows, by his air and manner (for there is a kind of
free-masonry in the craft), to be a brother out-and-outer, and towards
whom he accordingly makes his way. Conversation being soon opened by
some casual remark, the second out-and-outer confidentially informs the
first, that he is one of the rough sort and hates that kind of thing,
only he couldn't very well be off coming; to which the other replies,
that that's just his case--'and I'll tell you what,' continues the
out-and-outer in a whisper, 'I should like a glass of warm brandy and
water just now,'--'Or a pint of stout and a pipe,' sugge