Veal that Deuceace took his lodgian, at the Hotel
de Bang, in a very crooked street called the Rue del Ascew; and if he'd
been the Archbishop of Devonshire, or the Duke of Canterbury, he could
not have given himself greater hairs, I can tell you. Nothink was too
fine for us now; we had a sweet of rooms on the first floor, which
belonged to the prime minister of France (at least the landlord said
they were the premier's); and the Hon. Algernon Percy Deuceace, who had
not paid his landriss, and came to Dover in a coach, seamed now to think
that goold was too vulgar for him, and a carridge and six would break
down with a man of his weight. Shampang flew about like ginger-pop,
besides bordo, clarit, burgundy, burgong, and other wines, and all the
delixes of the Balong kitchins. We stopped a fortnit at this dull place,
and did nothing from morning till night excep walk on the bench, and
watch the ships going in and out of arber, with one of them long,
sliding opra-glasses, which they call, I don't know why, tallow-scoops.
Our amusements for the fortnit we stopped here were boath numerous and
daliteful; nothink, in fact, could be more pickong, as they say. In the
morning before breakfast we boath walked on the Peer; master in a blue
mareen jackit, and me in a slap-up new livry; both provided with long
sliding opra-glasses, called as I said (I don't know Y, but I suppose
it's a scientafick term) tallow-scoops. With these we igsamined, very
attentively, the otion, the sea-weed, the pebbles, the dead cats, the
fishwimmin, and the waives (like little children playing at leap-frog),
which came tumblin over 1 another on to the shoar. It seemed to me as if
they were scrambling to get there, as well they might, being sick of the
sea, and anxious for the blessid, peaceable terry firmy.

After brexfast, down we went again (that is, master on his beat, and me
on mine,--for my place in this foring town was a complete shinycure),
and putting our tally-scoops again in our eyes, we egsamined a little
more the otion, pebbils, dead cats, and so on; and this lasted till
dinner, and dinner till bedtime, and bedtime lasted till nex day, when
came brexfast, and dinner, and tally-scooping, as before. This is the
way with all people of this town, of which, as I've heard say, there is
ten thousand happy English, who lead this plesnt life from year's end to
year's end.

Besides this, there's billiards and gambling for the gentlemen, a little
dancin