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"But where are the others? Asleep still?" "Gone, Perry. At sight of this ham Jerny shied like a wild colt, Devenham moaned, and together they tottered forth into the bleak world. Did you say ham, Perry?" "I did not!" "Beef then beef looks excellent! Beef?" "Horrible!" I exclaimed, turning my back on the breakfast table. "Eat if you can, Tony, but talk you must and shall."
"What, George," enquired one, "ha' you found Jessamy?" "No!" answered my uncle, slapping me on the shoulder. "But the next best thing, Devenham " "And a demned queer-looking thing it is, George!" added the recumbent gentleman, viewing me with a pair of blue eyes, one of which exhibited signs of recent punishment. "None the less, Jerny," answered uncle George, "it is my nephew.
"But, my dear Jerny, you must admit that your 'Clinker' 's inclined to be just a le-e-etle cow-hocked, come now, b'gad?" "And then as I've often remarked, my dear Sling, the 'Rascal' is too long in the pasterns, not to mention " "B'gad! give me a horse with good bellows, round, d' ye see, well ribbed home "
"Then I shall be devilish sorry to have to beat you, Sling, my boy!" drawled the Marquis, "yes, doocid sorry, still " "Eh what? Beat the 'Rascal, Jerny? Not on your weedy 'Clinker, b'gad " "Oh, but dooce take me, Sling, you'd never say the 'Rascal' was the better horse? Why, in the first place, there's too much daylight under him for your weight besides "
And we are with him aren't we, Jerny?" "Of course!" answered the Marquis, "dooce take me yes! So would poor old Sling have been." "Sirs," said Barnabas, reaching out and grasping a hand of each, "with your friendship to hearten me all things are possible even this!"
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