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"'Did you ever reflect, Tom, upon the source of political power? continued the old gentleman, and without waiting for an answer, fortunately, as I was fast becoming dumbfoundered, 'the people, Tom, the people; not you and I, so much as that miner, said he, pointing to a rough ugly-looking fellow that I had kicked out of my wife's bar-room or, rather, got my ostler to do it two nights before, 'That man, Tom, is a representative of thousands; we may represent but ourselves.
"A likely story, that. Do drunken folk climb up ladders, eh?" "Not always, sir." "How long has he been up here, now?" "Never seen him afore, sir," returned the unabashed ostler, with an air of perfect candour. "You will be getting into serious trouble some day if you don't be careful to speak the truth," exclaimed his master, "so I warn you, sir. Now, out with it; he was here when you went down."
Crowdey was 'awful mean, at the same time pulling out a sample of bad ship oats, that he had got from a neighbouring ostler, to show the 'stuff' their 'osses' were a eatin' of. The fact was, Jog's beer was nothing like so strong as Mr. Puffington's; added to which, Mr. Crowdey carried the principles of the poor-law union into his own establishment, and dieted his servants upon certain rules.
These barbarous stories carried me, sitting there on the Holly-Tree hearth, to the Roadside Inn, renowned in my time in a sixpenny book with a folding plate, representing in a central compartment of oval form the portrait of Jonathan Bradford, and in four corner compartments four incidents of the tragedy with which the name is associated, coloured with a hand at once so free and economical, that the bloom of Jonathan's complexion passed without any pause into the breeches of the ostler, and, smearing itself off into the next division, became rum in a bottle.
He was not fully undeceived in this belief till somewhat late in the day, when, strolling into the stable-yard, the ostler, concluding from the gentleman's goodly thews and size that he was a north-country grazier, delivered Cutts's allegorical caution against the bullocks. Thus abandoned, Jasper's desperate project only acquired a still more concentrated purpose and a ruder simplicity of action.
Briefly I may state, however, that after Jovita had been handed over to a sleepy ostler, whom she at once kicked into unpleasant consciousness, Dick sallied out with the bar-keeper for a tour of the sleeping town.
"The idea," he added, "of a fellow coming here, paying four guineas a week for board and lodging, telling me he would not have minded eight, and then not wanting any breakfast; it's enough to aggravate half a dozen saints; but what an odd fish he looks." At this moment the ostler came in, and, standing at the bar, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve, as he said,
"What's she got in her 'and?" "Looks like a 'igh 'at." "What a bloomin' lark it is! Three to one on old George," said the ostler boy. "Nexst!" Minnie went by in a perfect roar of applause.
"The prettiest, daintiest shoe in all Christendom. I noticed it particularly as she stood there on that old, worn mat " Seeing him so lost, I ventured to shake his arm and repeat my query, whereupon he roused and nodded. "To be sure. Perry, to be sure! We must persuade our ostler and postboy to find us another let us see to it forthwith!"
'Five shillings, sir. 'Here! said the Duke; 'and tell me when a coach leaves this place to-morrow for Yorkshire. 'Half-past six o'clock in the morning precisely, said the ostler. 'Well, my good fellow, I depend upon your securing me a place; and that is for yourself, added his Grace, throwing him a sovereign. 'Now, mind; I depend upon you.
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