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"Why, yes," said Bobby. "I just went up to the Hotel Larken and said I'd be responsible for their hotel bill." "Oh," said Spratt. "Then you're backing them for their week here." "Well, I'm not quite sure about that," hesitated Bobby. "If you don't, I will," offered Spratt. "There's a long line of full-dress Willies here that'll draw their week's wages in advance to attend grand opera in cabs.

Others were eminent Doctors, like John Sharp, Archbishop of York, formerly Dean of Norwich; the poet, Thomas Spratt, Bishop of Rochester, an apoplectic old man; and that Bishop of Lincoln, who was to die Archbishop of Canterbury, Wake, the adversary of Bossuet.

As soon as Mr Henley had got over his first sensations of indignation, he did his best to keep up our spirits. Having breakfasted, the first thing we did was to haul up the boat to examine her thoroughly. "It will never do to venture to sea in her," said Mr Henley, and Johnny Spratt agreed with him.

A poet who has been dead a century or two is amazing good company at least, he never fails to be so when Johnson tells us as much of his story as he can remember without undue research, with that irony of his, that vast composure, that humorous perception of the greatness and the littleness of human life, that make the brief records of a Spratt, a Walsh, and a Fenton so divinely entertaining.

I learn from Captain Spratt, R.N., that the island of Crete or Candia, about 135 miles in length, has been raised at its western extremity about 25 feet; so that ancient ports are now high and dry above the sea, while at its eastern end it has sunk so much that the ruins of old towns are seen under water.

The schooner evidently also had a fast pair of heels, but we came up with her. I saw Johnny Spratt looking at her very attentively, when after three or four hours' chase we had got near enough to see her hold from the deck. "Well, Spratt, what do you think of her?" I asked.

But Franky had ducked his head from beneath his mother's hand, dashed round the counter, and was away to the society of the expectant Willy. In an interregnum of peace between the going and coming of customers Mrs. Day moaned to Deleah over the grievous subject of Franky's deterioration. "He even brushes his hair, and wears his cap, in the fashion of that dreadful Willy Spratt.

"The manors of Rood and Dulmansberry, and all the lands therein, which my great-grandfather sold away, are to be sold again when Squire Thornhill's eldest son comes of age, to cut off the entail. Sir John Spratt talks of buying them. I should like to have them back again! 'T is a shame to see the Leslie estates hawked about, and bought by Spratts and people.

'Whose hat-box is this? 'Mr Spratt's, sir. 'D n Mr Spratt, I'll teach him to keep his hat-box safe another time; over with it' and away it went over the lee gangway. Spratt's father was a hatter in Bond Street, so we all laughed." "And pray, Frank," said my mother, "did your box go in the same way?" "It kept company, I assure you.

The men unanimously declared that they were ready to do exactly what he wished. "Well, then, we will make the attempt," he exclaimed. "But what is that? What can be that red glare over where we just saw the ship?" "She is on fire, sir," answered Spratt, after attentively watching the point indicated. "She's not the first ship I've seen burning at sea, and I know for certain that is one.