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A man may think especially in these hard times, with 'wheat below forty, as Mr. Springwheat would say that it will be as much as he can do to mount himself. Again, he may not think a lady looks any better for running down with perspiration, and being daubed with mud. Above all, if he belongs to the worshipful company of Craners, he may not like for his wife to be seen beating him across country.
I'd give five thousand pounds for such a wife as you! With which asseverations his lordship stamped away in his great clumsy boots, amidst the ill-suppressed laughter of the party. 'No hurry, gentlemen no hurry, observed Mr. Springwheat, as some of the keen ones were preparing to follow, and began sorting their hats, and making the mistakes incident to their being all the same shape.
Springwheat, by dint of early rising and superintendence, had got things into such a state of forwardness as to be able to adorn herself with a little jaunty cap curious in microscopic punctures and cherry-coloured ribbon interlardments placed so far back on her finely-shaped head as to proclaim beyond all possibility of cavil that it was there for ornament, and not for the purpose of concealing the liberties of time with her well-kept, clearly parted, raven-black hair.
'Clap him on the back! shrieked Mrs. Springwheat, who considered that an infallible recipe for the ailments of children. 'Oh, Mr. Spraggon! exclaimed both, as they rushed to his assistance, 'what is the matter with my lord? 'Oh, that Mister something! gasped his lordship, bending forward in his chair, and venturing another glance through the window.
''Deed they don't, replied Jack, with a grin. 'Will your lordship take tea or coffee? asked Mrs. Springwheat, who had now taken her seat at the top of the table, behind a richly chased equipage for the distribution of those beverages. ''Pon my word, replied his lordship, apparently bewildered ''pon my word, I don't know what to say. Tea or coffee?
Springwheat would have had an interminable poultry-bill against the hunt; whereas, simply by 'making things pleasant' that is to say, coming to breakfast Springwheat saw his corn trampled on, nay, led the way over it himself, and Mrs. Springwheat saw her Dorkings disappear without a murmur unless, indeed, an inquiry when his lordship would be coming could be considered in that light.
'It's to be hoped Springy's out of the brook, observed Jack. 'To be hoped so, replied his lordship, thinking, if he wasn't whether he should marry Mrs. Springwheat or not.
Do come upstairs and see Mrs. Jawleyford and the dear girls. It was only last night we were talking about you. And so Jawleyford hurries Mr. Waffles off, just as Waffles is in extremis about his horse. Looking around the scene there seems to be everybody that we have had the pleasure of introducing to the reader in the course of Mr. Sponge's Tour. Mr. and Mrs. Springwheat in their dog-cart, Mrs.
'A turkey, my lord, replied Springwheat; 'home-fed, my lord. 'Ah, home-fed, indeed! ejaculated his lordship, with a shake of the head: 'home-fed: wish I could feed at home. The man who said that E'en from the peasant to the lord, The turkey smokes on every board, told a big un, for I'm sure none ever smokes on mine. 'Take a little here to-day, then, observed Mr.
'Ah! you should always have a chap to wear your boots a few times before you put them on yourself, observed his lordship. 'I never have a pair of tight uns, added he; 'Jack here always does the needful by mine. 'That's all very well for lords, replied Mr. Springwheat; 'but us farmers wear out our boots fast enough ourselves, without anybody to help us.
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