THE POMPONIUS EGO DAY 



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 and soft, and having vented his anger upon his 



non-paying subscriber, things soon resumed their 

 right course, while Pigg turned the accident to 

 account by sending Ben about with the insurance 

 tickets, singing out 'Take your tickets, gent! 

 please take your tickets! goin' into a hawful 

 country bottomless brooks ! Old 'un got brandy 

 in his bottle ! Keg'lar cut-'em-down-and-'ang-'em- 

 up-to-dry country ! ' 



This traffic was in turn interrupted by an 

 extraordinary Hyena-looking cap and scarlet- 

 coated youth, with a cane-coloured beard and 

 moustache, cantering furiously about on a long- 

 tailed, cream-coloured hack, dashing at every 

 group of grooms and dark-coated horsemen, with 

 the inquiry ( Have you seen my fellow ? Have you 

 seen my fellow ? ' At last he made for the pack, 

 and hazarding the same inquiry of Pigg, that 

 distinguished observer, after a careful though 

 somewhat impertinent scrutiny, exclaimed : 



* N o r, ar'm d d if iver ar did! 1 and Mr. 

 Jorrocks, seeing the stranger arranging his whip 



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