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'You see we have to observe regular habits here; and I couldn't be seen at the Cock-and-Bottle just now. 'O dammy, then don't come, your reverence. Perhaps you won't mind standing treat for those who can be seen there? 'Not a penny, said the younger firmly. 'You've had enough already. 'Thank you for nothing. By the bye, who was that spindle-legged, shoe- buckled parson feller we met by now?
Some of these worthies wore cockades or badges, and later on Tom learned to know them as Darby captains, Tash captains, or Cock-and-bottle captains, according to the special sort of marauding which they favoured. He met one party of the dreaded Mohocks, or Mohawks, reeling along half intoxicated already, and ripe for any offensive mischief, which later in the day they were certain to perpetrate.
Sick at heart he was going to ask them if they were in want of any necessary, any meal, when his father cut him short by saying, 'Why, we've called to ask ye to come round and take pot-luck with us at the Cock-and-Bottle, where we've put up for the day, on our way to see mis'ess's friends at Binegar Fair, where they'll be lying under canvas for a night or two.
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