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Mine Ost of the Greenlion said I must interregate this strange bein, who claimed to be my countryman. "He hasn't called for a drop of beer since he's been in this ere Ouse," said the landlord. "I look to you," he added, "to clear up this dark, this orful mistry!" I wringed the lan'lord's honest hand, and told him to consider the mistry cleared up.
"You not know ob it!" he exclaimed; "why eberybody knows ob it, an' a'most eberybody's agwine all de 'spectable peepil, I mean, an' some ob dem what's not zactly as 'spectable as dey should be. But dey's all agwine. He's a liberal gubner, you see, an' he's gwine to gib de ball in de inn at de lan'lord's expense." "Indeed; that's a curiously liberal arrangement."
"It's a umbug," said the lan'lord; to which I replied that we'd best go and see, and we went. We was late, on account of the lan'lord's extensiv acquaintans with the public house keepers along the road, and the hall was some two miles distant, but we got there at last.
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