Rip! I'll certainly be
the death of him; or he will of me, which is most likely. Alice, who
have you in the chair?

ALICE.

The pedlar woman, aunt, who has come for the things she left.

DAME.

The pedlar woman--hark'ee gossip: bring no more of your rubbish here.
Take yourself off, and let me have a clear house.

KNICKERBOCKER.

[_Aside._] 'Gad, I wish I was safely cleared out of it. [KNICKERBOCKER
_rises, hobbles forward; but, forgetting the shortness of the
petticoats, in curtseying, is discovered by the_ DAME, _from the
exposure of his legs._

DAME.

Odds bodikins and pins! who have we here! an imposter! but you shall pay
for it; this is a pedlar woman, indeed, with such lanky shanks. [_She
rushes up to door and, locks it--then, with a broom pursues him round; he
flings bonnet in her face._

KNICKERBOCKER.

Needs must, when the devil drives--so here goes.

_He jumps through the window [which is dashed to pieces]_(_108_)_--and
disappears._--DAME _rushes up, with broom, towards window._--ALICE _laughs._

DAME.

What! laugh at his misconduct, hussey. One's just as bad as the other.
All born to plague me. Get you to bed--to bed, I say. [DAME _drives_
ALICE _off, and follows._

*Footnotes*

47 "_speaking off, to the child,_" in K.

48 Not in K.

49 Not in K.

50 Not in K. Instead, "he is so handsome, his figure is so elegant."

51 Not in K.

52 Not in K.

53 "mein" in K.

54 "Ve'll" in K.

55 "bate" in K.

56 "broken" in K. Also add "by your knocks."

57 Not in K.

58 "Tonner" in K.

59 "tink" in K.

60 "finish" in K.

61 "crockery" in K.

62 Not in K.

63 Not in K.

64 "der tyfil's" in K.

65 "brivate" in K.

66 "goot-hell" in K.

67 "brosber" in K.

68 "tink" in K.

69 "entering" inserted, in K.

70 "I vork" in K.

71 "bit-and-bat" in K.

72 "goot" in K.

73 "bersbiration" in K.

74 Not in K.

75 "vild" and "tog" in K.

76 Not in K.

77 Not in K.

78 Not in K.

79 Not in K.

80 "bardon" in K.

81 Not in K.

82 Not in K.

83 "uncommon" in K.

84 "him" in K.

85 "Mynheer" in K.

86 "boot" and "baber" in K.

87 "freund" in K.

88 In K. "S--ss cat! be quiet wid you!".

89 "Stob" and "vould" in K.

90 "der tyfil" in K.

91 In K. "S--s cat! you be quiet, or I will ski