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'Come in, sir, said Miss Wren, who was working at her bench. 'And who may you be? Mr Sloppy introduced himself by name and buttons. 'Oh indeed! cried Jenny. 'Ah! I have been looking forward to knowing you. I heard of your distinguishing yourself. 'Did you, Miss? grinned Sloppy. 'I am sure I am glad to hear it, but I don't know how. 'Pitching somebody into a mud-cart, said Miss Wren. 'Oh!
Mrs Honour had no sooner left the kitchen in the manner we have before seen than the landlady fell severely upon her. The poor woman had indeed been loading her heart with foul language for some time, and now it scoured out of her mouth, as filth doth from a mud-cart, when the board which confines it is removed. "Never a barrel the better herring," cries he, "Noscitur a socio, is a true saying.
I never came across a man yet who had not seen some other man jerked off the top of an omnibus into a mud-cart. Half London must, at one time or another, have been jerked off omnibuses into mud-carts, and have been fished out at the end of a shovel. Then there is the tale of the lady whose husband is taken suddenly ill one night at an hotel.
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