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"Well, I believe I 'ave," answered the little man, with an involuntary glance at his dilapidated clothes; "'avin' been inwited unless," he added, somewhat doubtfully, "the inwite came in a dream." "You may go in and clear up that point for yourself," said the landlady, as she ushered the poor man into the parlour, where he was almost startled to find an amiable gentleman waiting to receive him.
"Come, Slidder," said I, "you must learn to treat us with more respect, else I shall have to change my opinion of you." "Wery good, sir, that's your business, not mine. I wos inwited here, an' here I am. Now, wot 'ave you got to say to me? that's the p'int." "Can you read and write?" resumed the doctor.
"When my missus inwites pussons to de ball, my missus 'specs dem ar gemmens what is inwited to presarve dar qualifications. If gemmen am gemmen den dey don't cum'd to my missus's ball to suffocate her!" said Bowles, expressing himself, and assuming an air of injured dignity.
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