of Farringdon-Without. My apprentices are turned into mere goblins they appear and disappear like spunkies, and have no more regularity in them than a watch without a scapement. If there is a ball to be tossed up, or a bullock to be driven mad, or a quean to be ducked for scolding, or a head to be broken, Jenkin is sure to be at the one end or the other of it, and then away skips Francis Tunstall for company. I think the prize-fighters, bearleaders, and mountebanks, are in a league against me, my dear friend, and that they pass my house ten times for any other in the city. Here's an Italian fellow come over, too, that they call Punchinello; and, altogether" Well," interrupted Master George, "but what is all this to the present case?" "Why," replied Ramsay, "here has been a cry of thieves or murder, (I hope that will prove the least of it amongst these English pock-pudding swine!) and I have been interrupted in the deepest calculation ever mortal man plunged into, Master George." "What, man!" replied Master George, "you must take patience - You are a man that deals in time, and can make it go fast and slow at pleasure; you, of all the world, have least reason to complain, if a little of it be lost now and then. But here come your boys, and bringing in a slain man betwixt them, I think here has been serious mischief, I am afraid." "The more mischief the better sport," said the erabbed old watchmaker. "I am blithe, though, that it's neither of the twa loons themselves. -- What are ye bringing a corpse here for, ye fause villains?" he added, addressing the two apprentices, who, at |