The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 329: what you’re looking at

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256 THE STEAM PACKET, your lordship is right—perfectly ‘right; Mrs. P. would ibis my = eyes out!” | ‘“‘ At all youn) ” observed Buckram, after a short pause, ‘* it will cae never do for us to remain here all night. I never slept uponadung- __ LS 9 ay) another Pay ae “T am ready, my Jevd-ul, am ready,”” said the chance who was, delighted. to think that there was a prospect of extricating themselves from their present dilémma. He accordingly took the tailor’s arm, and they descended from the ae dung-heep into what appeared to bea garden. Large trees were: in- terspersed about, at short intervals, and these often confused the tra- vellers’ path, by casting their dense shadows. upon the ground overwhich they were treading. At length, smash went a quantity of glass; and both — Mr. Pifpaf and the tailor uttered ejaculations of alarm simultaneously. | ‘* The deuce! ” cried the former. f iid) eee The oop ! ”” exclaimed the latter. se hill yet—although my father often used to prophesy that I should die i there. But it is no use to stay palavering here,—as I observed to the bs ‘ late King Billy one day, when he couldn’t get through his speech ca on the occasion of opening Parliament. Give me your arm, Pifpaf, “a my boy—and we’ll soon find an egress, else may I never cabbage * at 64% the ehititeniea ;—and smash went some more i as fey floundered about in the frames. _ “For God’s sake let us retreat!” said Buckram; and a retrograde movement, fortunately, extricated them from Galen peril. - Now let us take quite another direction, and try our luck that way.” This manoeuvre was accordingly effected; and in a few minutes the two gentlemen found themselves in a sie aiiaue path, which, to. their “great! joy, conducted them back to the main road. This aheg now pursued with alacrity, in the direction of Boulogne; and Mr, Buckram | ‘was in the middle ‘ofan anecdote of some, remark which he had once made to the Lord Chancellor, upon the best way to make trousers fit ‘over the boot, and to which Mr, Pifpaf was listening with. the most profound attention and respect, when three very. unpleasant. looking ‘gentlemen, armed with clubs, and wearing blue smocks, suddenly Ed met them face to face, The remarks were cut short in the most pithy — part ;—and the three individuals in smocks addressed the Luminaries __ in a tone too savage and authoritative to reassure the TAOS: hearts of the latter. ea : “T wonder what they say?” eried| Mr, Pifpaf to his companion, in Si an agony of alarm. i) Eomicbooks: co (9)