arning" meant,--lockin the stable-door, but
stealin the boss fust.

Next day, his strattygam for becoming acquainted with Mr. Dawkins he
exicuted, and very pritty it was.

Besides potry and the floot, Mr. Dawkins, I must tell you, had some
other parsballities--wiz., he was very fond of good eatin and drinkin.
After doddling over his music and boox all day, this young genlmn used
to sally out of evenings, dine sumptiously at a tavern, drinkin all
sots of wine along with his friend Mr. Blewitt. He was a quiet young
fellow enough at fust; but it was Mr. B. who (for his own porpuses, no
doubt) had got him into this kind of life. Well, I needn't say that he
who eats a fine dinner, and drinks too much overnight, wants a bottle
of soda-water, and a gril, praps, in the mornink. Such was Mr.
Dawkinses case; and reglar almost as twelve o'clock came, the waiter
from Dix Coffy-House was to be seen on our stairkis, bringin up Mr.
D.'s hot breakfast.

No man would have thought there was anythink in such a trifling
circkumstance; master did, though, and pounced upon it like a cock on a
barlycorn.

He sent me out to Mr. Morell's, in Pickledilly, for wot's called a
Strasbug-pie--in French, a "patty defaw graw." He takes a card, and
nails it on the outside case (patty defaw graws come generally in a
round wooden box, like a drumb); and what do you think he writes on it?
why, as follos:--"For the Honourable Algernon Percy Deuceace, etc. etc.
etc. With Prince Talleyrand's compliments."

Prince Tallyram's complimints, indeed! I laff when I think of it
still, the old surpint! He was a surpint, that Deuceace, and no
mistake.

Well, by a most extrornary piece of ill-luck, the next day punctially
as Mr. Dawkinses brexfas was coming up the stairs, Mr. Halgernon Percy
Deuceace was going down. He was as gay as a lark, humming an Oppra
tune, and twizzting round his head his hevy gold-headed cane. Down he
went very fast, and by a most unlucky axdent struck his cane against
the waiter's tray, and away went Mr. Dawkinses gril, kayann, kitchup,
soda-water, and all! I can't think how my master should have choas
such an exact time; to be sure, his windo looked upon the cort, and he
could see every one who came into our door.

As soon as the axdent had took place, master was in such a rage as, to
be sure, no man ever was in befor; he swoar at the waiter in the most
dreddfle way; he threatened him with his stick, and it was only when he