and at last, when I caught her, it turned out to be Doctor Chord,
whereupon I threw him indignantly into the bushes, and then saw to my
dismay it was the Countess. She began giving her opinion of me so
vigorously that I awoke and found it broad daylight.

CHAPTER XXIX

After a comforting and sustaining breakfast I sent for Paddy and Jem,
both of whom came in limping.

"Are you no better this morning?" I asked them.

"Troth, we're worse," said Paddy with a most dismal look on his face.

"I'm sorry to hear it," said I; "but I think the trouble will wear off
to-day if you lie snug and quiet in the inn. Here's this bottle of
embrocation, or what is left of it, so you may take it with you and
divide it fairly between you, remembering that one good rub deserves
another, and that our chief duty on this earth is to help our fellow
man; and as there's nothing like easy employment for making a man
forget his tribulations, Jem will rub Paddy, and Paddy will rub Jem,
and thus, God blessing you both, you will pass the time to your mutual
benefit."

"Yer honour," sniffed Jem Bottles, "I like your own prescriptions
better than Doctor Chord's. I have but small faith in the liniment;
the bottle of wine you gave us last night--and I wish it had been as
double as it made us see--was far better for our trouble than this
stuff."

"I doubt it, Jem," said I, "for you're worse this morning than you
were last night; so I'll change the treatment and go back to Doctor
Chord's remedy, for sure the Doctor is a physician held in high esteem
by the nobility of London. But you're welcome to a double mug of beer
at my expense, only see that you don't take too much of that."

"Yer honour," said Jem, "it's only when we're sober that we fall upon
affliction. We had not a drop to drink yesterday morning, and see what
happened us."

"It would have made no differ," I said, "if you had been as tipsy as
the Earl himself is when dinner's over. Trust in Providence, Jem, and
rub hard with the liniment, and you'll be a new man by the morrow
morn."

With this I took my papers and the letter of introduction, and set out
as brave as you please to find the Temple, which I thought would be a
sort of a church, but which I found to be a most sober and respectable
place very difficult for a stranger to find his way about in. But at
last I came to the place where Mr. Josiah Brooks dispensed the law for
a consideration to ignorant spalpeens like mysel