Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and
we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.
Frinstance, I can say this for MYSELF, there wasn't a paper in
Deuceace's desk or drawer, not a bill, a note, or mimerandum, which I
hadn't read as well as he: with Blewitt's it was the same--me and his
young man used to read 'em all. There wasn't a bottle of wine that we
didn't get a glass out of, nor a pound of sugar that we didn't have some
lumps of it. We had keys to all the cubbards--we pipped into all the
letters that kem and went---we pored over all the bill-files--we'd the
best pickens out of the dinners, the livvers of the fowls, the forcemit
balls out of the soup, the egs from the sallit. As for the coals
and candles, we left them to the landrisses. You may call this
robry--nonsince--it's only our rights--a suvvant's purquizzits is as
sacred as the laws of Hengland.

Well, the long and short of it is this. Richard Blewitt, esquire, was
sityouated as follows: He'd an incum of three hundred a year from his
father. Out of this he had to pay one hundred and ninety for money
borrowed by him at collidge, seventy for chambers, seventy more for his
hoss, aty for his suvvant on bord wagis, and about three hundred and
fifty for a sepparat establishment in the Regency Park; besides this,
his pockit-money, say a hunderd, his eatin, drinkin, and wine-marchant's
bill, about two hunderd moar. So that you see he laid by a pretty
handsome sum at the end of the year.

My master was diffrent; and being a more fashnable man than Mr. B., in
course he owed a deal more mony. There was fust:

Account contray, at Crockford's L 3711 0 0
Bills of xchange and I. O. U.'s (but he
didn't pay these in most cases) 4963 0 0
21 tailors' bills, in all 1306 11 9
3 hossdealers' do 402 0 0
2 coachbuilder 506 0 0
Bills contracted at Cambridtch 2193 6 8
Sundries 987 10 0
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L 14069 8 5

I give this as a curosity--pipple doan't know how in many cases
fashnabble life is carried on; and to know even what a real gnlmn OWES
is somethink instructif and agreeable.

But to my tail. The very day after my master had made the inquiries
concerning Mr. Dawkins, witch I mentioned