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should find us out! I should sit on pins on 

 wool-combers with nothin' but summer drawers 

 on, till the account appeared, and then I question 

 I should have courage to cut the pages. Oh, 

 hambition ! hambition ! wot a troublesome warmint 

 you are ! Wish I 'd let the great man alone.' 



Pigg. ' A, man alive niver fear ; he cannot de 

 thee ne harm. Let me manish him, ar'll give 

 him summut to bragg on.' 



Mr. Jorrocks. * I vish I dirst you Scotchmen 

 are cliver fellers; but s'pose he should smell a 

 rat, 'ow he would trounce us, as much to show 

 his own 'cuteness, as to punish us for our 

 imperance ! ' 



'Ye've nout to fear, ar tell ye,' replied Pigg 

 confidently; 'ye've nout to fear; just leave it 

 arl to me, and had your jaw about it, and dinna 

 call me a Scotchman, and keep thy bit bowde- 

 kite quiet ar'll manish matters.' 



With much fear, and many misgivings for his 

 rashness in asking Ego to come, Mr. Jorrocks 

 at length consented to intrust the management 



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