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There follows the subscribers' list. It is a Mr. Tickle's set that has come to me, for his name is on the fly-leaf. But for me and this set of Bell, Mr. Tickle would seem to have sunk into obscurity. I proclaim him here, and if there be anywhere at this day younger Tickles, even down to the merest titillation, may they see these lines and thus take a greeting from the past.
I should like to keep three ponies, and to have Miss Tickle's sister to come and live with me." "I do not know whether you are in earnest, Miss Thoroughbung." "Quite in earnest, Peter Prosper. But perhaps I had better leave that matter in the hands of Soames & Simpson, very gentleman-like men, and they'll be sure to let you know how much you ought to pay.
Putting aside the ponies and the champagne, and the despatched crab, the sound of which, as coming to him from Miss Tickle's mouth, was uglier than the other sounds, he still thought that Miss Thoroughbung would answer his purpose. From her side there would not be making of a silk purse; but then "the boy" would be his boy as well as hers, and would probably take more after the father.
"The tickle's narrow, not very wide; The deepest water's on the starboard side When in the harbor you is shot, Four fathoms you has got." It is an evil coast, with hidden reefs and islands scattered like dust its whole length.
It was certainly a strong reason against his marriage. "I told her that you had a cold in your head." "In my chest," said Mr. Prosper, meekly. "'Bother colds! said Miss Tickle. 'When people are keeping company together they ought to see each other. Those were Miss Tickle's very words." That it should be said of him, Mr. Prosper, of Buston, that he was "keeping company" with any woman!
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