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'He's al'ys a-findin' faut wi' him, and a-poundin' him for nothin'. Let him goo an' eat his roost goose as is a-smellin' up in our noses while we're a-swallering them greasy broth, an' let my boy alooan. Mr. Spratt's small eyes flashed, and he was in danger of uttering sentiments not unexceptionable before the clergyman; but Mr.
"Yes," says the old lady, laughing, "my baby loves dog-biscuits." The girl opened the bag, and there, sure enough, was a bottle of milk and half a dozen Spratt's biscuits. She had her back to the old lady, when she heard a sort of a groan and a thud as made her turn round. The old lady was lying stretched dead on the hearthrug so the chambermaid thought.
Another time the Dey confessed with dignified naïveté to Consul Cole: "The Algerines are a company of rogues and I am their Captain!" Several Voyages, 111 ff. See his descendant Adm. Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete, i. 384-7. Playfair, 64 ff. Voyages, ii. 887. Several Voyages, 57-8. Morgan, Pref. v., vi. Playfair, 94.
For the more powerful dogs the use of wrought-iron railings is advisable, and these can be procured cheaply from Spratt's or Boulton and Paul's, fitted with gates and with revolving troughs for feeding from the outside. Opinions differ as to the best material for the flooring of kennels and the paving of runs.
"My son goes to Spratt's," she would say to her confidential friends. "All the young men go to Spratt's after their balls. It is de rigeur, my dear; and they play billiards as they used to play macao and hazard in Mr. Fox's time. Yes, my dear father often told me that they sate up always until nine o'clock the next morning with Mr.
After dinner I to the office, and there wrote as long as my eyes would give me leave, and then abroad and to the New Exchange, to the bookseller's there, where I hear of several new books coming out Mr. Spratt's History of the Royal Society, and Mrs. Phillips's' poems.
These outcast giants in plush took their beer in an outer apartment of the Wheel of Fortune, and could no more get an entry into the club room than a Pall Mall tradesman or a Lincoln's Inn attorney could get admission into Bay's or Spratt's.
After dinner I to the office, and there wrote as long as my eyes would give me leave, and then abroad and to the New Exchange, to the bookseller's there, where I hear of several new books coming out Mr. Spratt's History of the Royal Society, and Mrs. Phillips's' poems.
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