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wall, and so move on until we meet in that manner, and then 

 your honour sees that neither of us has the right hand, but we're 

 backs to it." 



" Humph ! hey ! Yule is there any such case in Blackstone that 

 we may decide by ?" 



"None, Sir Charles." 



" Then you'd better pay the damage you've done to John Steven- 

 son, old men, and fight it out as usual." 



"An' wot's he to pay us for spoiling our clothes, and giving us 

 our death o' cold, by throwing a bucket of water on us, your 

 honour ?" 



" Go into another room, and make it up as you can ; and hear, if 

 you can't agree, fight it out one amongst another, only don't come 

 bothering me any more with your nonsense. What case next ? 

 quick !" 



" If you please, your Worship, since you've been away," said the 

 constable, " Jackey Rattles hez allo been about that four-and-six- 



igs 



foot, three hundred an forty-five times sin last justice-day I've 

 made a memorandum ; an I can niver walk up th' street now, but 

 what a parcel of children get after me an shout Bumble- foot, your 

 worship." 



" If they shout Bumble-head, I cant see what you have to do with 

 it, but this hat 's arrether matter ; what business had you with it, 

 Mr. Rattles ? come sirrah, quick." 



" Why, your worship, as I foun a hat one day!] in th' street, an I 

 could'nt swear whose it was, so I picked it up, and there was a man 

 going past as looked if he wanted one very bad, so he says, if you'll 



f've me it, I'll give you five shillings, so your worship sees I did ; 

 couldn't swear as it was Mr. Jerrom's; an as to my saying Bumble- 

 foot, I don't see what he has to do with that, because I think that 

 when I'm walking along a street, Ive a right to say what I like." 



" Yes, sirrah, but you have no right to pick a man's hat up and sell 

 it ; " you must pay him the five shillings back, or sit in the stocks 

 three hours." 



'* Well sir, I shall prefer sitting in the stocks, until Mr. Jerroms 

 has a mind to take sixpence of me, and then it ill make it all straight 

 for that four-and-sixpence which he made me pay for calling him 

 Bumble-foot." 



ft Jerroms, you must take the sixpence." 



" I will, an' if youll make him find bond not to call me any 

 more." 



" Jacky Rattles, you must be bound in your own recognizances for 

 twenty pounds, not to abuse Mr. Jerroms any more." 



" I'll be bound for a hundred if your worrhip chooses, and Mr. 

 Bumble-foot may go my halves ; and if he's a mind to go with me 

 to the sign of the Lamb, we'll spend this sixpence, for I don't like to 

 pay in dry money, your worship ; but my^tongue will say Bumble- 

 foot somehow, whether I'll let it or not." 



" Well, well, settle it as you can. Any more business ?" 



