d down the room--tother, angry and stupid, sittin down, and stampin
with his foot.

"Now listen to this, Mr. Blewitt," continues master at last. "If you're
quiet, you shall have half this fellow's money: but venture to win a
shilling from him in my absence, or without my consent, and you do it at
your peril."

"Well, well, Mr. Deuceace," cries Dick, "it's very hard, and I must say,
not fair: the game was of my startin, and you've no right to interfere
with my friend."

"Mr. Blewitt, you are a fool! You professed yesterday not to know this
man, and I was obliged to find him out for myself. I should like to know
by what law of honor I am bound to give him up to you?"

It was charmin to hear this pair of raskles talkin about HONOR. I
declare I could have found it in my heart to warn young Dawkins of the
precious way in which these chaps were going to serve him. But if THEY
didn't know what honor was, I did; and never, never did I tell tails
about my masters when in their sarvice--OUT, in cors, the hobligation is
no longer binding.

Well, the nex day there was a gran dinner at our chambers. White soop,
turbit, and lobstir sos; saddil of Scoch muttn, grous, and M'Arony;
wines, shampang, hock, maderia, a bottle of poart, and ever so many
of clarrit. The compny presint was three; wiz., the Honrabble A. P.
Deuceace, R. Blewitt, and Mr. Dawkins, Exquires. My i, how we genlmn in
the kitchin did enjy it. Mr. Blewittes man eat so much grous (when it
was brot out of the parlor), that I reely thought he would be sik; Mr.
Dawkinses genlmn (who was only abowt 13 years of age) grew so il with
M'Arony and plumb-puddn, as to be obleeged to take sefral of Mr. D's.
pils, which 1/2 kild him. But this is all promiscuous: I an't talkin of
the survants now, but the masters.

Would you bleeve it? After dinner and praps 8 bottles of wine between
the 3, the genlm sat down to ecarty. It's a game where only 2 plays, and
where, in coarse, when there's only 3, one looks on.

Fust, they playd crown pints, and a pound the bett. At this game they
were wonderful equill; and about supper-time (when grilled am, more
shampang, devld biskits, and other things, was brot in) the play stood
thus: Mr. Dawkins had won 2 pounds; Mr. Blewitt 30 shillings; the
Honrabble Mr. Deuceace having lost 3L. l0s. After the devvle and the
shampang the play was a little higher. Now it was pound pints, and five
pound the bet. I thought, to be sure, after hearing the compl