rs.'
to look like widders. Two or three wivewomen of the Chinese stock, a
bustin' of their stays off a'most, and as fat as show-beef; an oldest
son or two, with the eend of the silver spoon he was born with, a
peepin' out o' the corner of his mouth, and his face as vacant as a horn
lantern without a candle in it; a younger son or so jist from college,
who looks as if he had an idea he'd have to airn his livin', and whose
lantern face looks as if it had had a candle in it, that had e'en amost
burnt the sides out, rather thin and pale, with streaks of Latin and
Greek in it; one or two everlastin' pretty young galls, so pretty as
there is nothin' to do, you can't hardly help bein' spooney on 'em.

"Matchless galls, they be too, for there is no matches for 'em. The
primur-genitur boy takes all so they have no fortin. Well, a younger son
won't do for 'em, for he has no fortin; and t'other primo geno there,
couldn't if he would, for he wants the estate next to hisn, and has to
take the gall that owns it, or he won't get it. I pity them galls, I
do upon my soul. It's a hard fate, that, as Minster sais, in his pretty
talk, to bud, unfold, bloom, wither, and die on the parent stock, and
have no one to pluck the rose, and put it in his bosom, aint it?

"Dinner is ready, and you lock and lock, and march off two and two, to
t'other room, and feed. Well, the dinner is like town dinner, there aint
much difference, there is some; there is a difference atween a country
coat, and a London coat; but still they look alike, and are intended to
be as near the same as they can. The appetite is better than town folks,
and there is more eatin' and less talkin', but the talkin', like the
eatin', is heavy and solemcoloy.

"Now do, Mr. Poker, that's a good soul, now do, Squire, look at the
sarvants. Do you hear that feller, a blowin' and a wheesin' like a hoss
that's got the heaves? Well he is so fat and lazy, and murders beef and
beer so, he has got the assmy, and walkin' puts him out o' breath--aint
it beautiful! Faithful old sarvant that, so attached to the family!
which means the family prog. Always to home! which means he is always
eatin' and drinkin', and hante time to go out. So respectful! which
means bowin' is an everlastin' sight easier, and safer too, nor talkin'
is. So honest! which means, parquisites covers all he takes. Keeps every
thin' in such good order! which means he makes the women do his work.
Puts every thin' in it's place