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"Well, but before I go," continued Gaff, "I wants to write a letter to old Stuart to warn him to look arter Emmie; a very partikler letter." "Ay, how much partikler a one?" inquired Haco. "A hambigoo-ous one," replied his friend. "A ham what?" said Haco interrogatively. "A ham-big-oo-ous one." "What sort of a one may that be, mate?"
"What, blue-eyed Tottie? oh, yer jokin'!" "Not a bit. That child's a parfec' cooriosity of intelligence. She can write and read most wonderful for her age." "But she'll never be able to do the ham what d'ye call it?" suggested Haco. "Of course not; she's too young for that, but the wife'll do that. You've no notion how powerful hambigoo-ous she is now an' again. We'll manage it amongst us.
Tottie can write like a parson, my wife can read, though she can't write, an'll see that it's all c'rect, specially the spellin' an' the makin' of it hambigoo-ous; an' I'll supply the idees, the notions like, an' superintend, so to speak, an' we'll make little Billy stand by wi' the blottin'-paper, just to keep him out o' mischief." Haco regarded his friend with deepening admiration.
The idea of producing a "hambigoo-ous" letter by such an elaborate family combination, in which each should supply his co-labourer's deficiency, was quite new and exceedingly interesting to him.
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