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'I was goin' to call upon you, observed the stranger, as he ceased swinging Sponge's arm to and fro like a pump-handle; 'I was goin' to call upon you, to see if you'd come over to Washingforde, and have some shootin' at me Oncle's Oncle Gilroy's, at Queercove Hill. 'Most happy! exclaimed Sponge, thinking it was the very thing he wanted.
It, however, came off as rustily as 'Jim Crow, for whose feats Facey evidently had a partiality; for no sooner did he get squeaked through 'me oncle's' tune than he returned to the nigger melody with redoubled zeal, and puffed and blew Sponge's calculations as to what he could ride from 'Mother Redcap's at Camden Town down Liquorpond Street, up Snow Hill, and so on, to the 'Angel' in Ratcliff Highway for, clean out of his head.
'Well, then, I'll play you me oncle's favourite tune, "The Merry Swiss Boy," whereupon Facey set to most vigorously with that once most popular air.
'Why is "Dover" underlined? 'I do not know, little fool, no more than you. How can I tell what is passing in your oncle's head when he make that a mark? 'Has it not a meaning, Madame? 'How can you talk like that? she answered, more in her old way. 'You are either mocking of me, or you are becoming truly a fool!
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