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He was a Radical of the old type, a tall, dark, bilious-looking man, a little hard and dry, perhaps, who seemed to think that it was no use to throw pearls before swine, and to serve up for the chaw-bacons a too rich intellectual treat, and his policy was a successful one.
'A flask or two of scent amongst them would not be amiss, he remarked; 'I would I had a casting bottle. 'Stand on your guard, but do not draw, cried Saxon. 'What the henker hath come over the chaw-bacons? They mean mischief. How now, friends, why this uproar? This question instead of allaying the tumult appeared to make it tenfold worse.
Let the south wind blow, and we can be at quaint old Tewkesbury, thirty miles away, in less than three hours. A northerly gale will land us at the "Blowing-stone" and the old White House of Berkshire with less labour than it takes to walk a mile. Yet in the old days these twenty miles were a great gulf fixed between the Gloucestershire natives and the "chaw-bacons" over the boundary.
'By the Mass! whispered Sir Gervas, 'it is magnificent! An hour of this is worth a year in the Mall. The old Puritan bull is fairly at bay. Let us see what sort of sport the bull-pups make in the baiting of him! I'll lay five pieces to four on the chaw-bacons! 'Nay, it's no matter for idle betting, said I shortly, for his light-hearted chatter annoyed me at so solemn a moment.
The town of Croydon, nine miles from the standard in Cornhill, is the general rendezvous of the gallant sportsmen. It is the principal market town in the eastern division of the county of Surrey; and the chaw-bacons who carry the produce of their acres to it, instead of to the neighbouring village of London, retain much of their pristine barbarity.
The following are specimens of the flattering appellations which had till now been bestowed, by their new friends, upon these selfsame farmers "Bull-frogs!" "chaw-bacons!" "clod-poles!" "hair-bucks!" "deluded slaves!" "brute drudges!"
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