270 . QUAKREL. 



was said about the bet, and he joined 

 us at a hasty -got -up dinner at the 

 first inn we arrived at. The cloth being 

 cleared, and the bottle going round, to 

 which all of us did ample justice, I 

 took occasion, from some observations 

 that fell on the day's amusement, to hint 

 that I had won five pounds of him, and 

 requested, in polite terms, that he would 

 give me the money; instead of doing so 

 he denied the bet, and in the course of the 

 altercation that ensued, in which I may 

 have led him to guess at my ulterior 

 purpose, he smiled contemptuously, and 

 called me a smock-faqed boy. 



It was true I had not yet cultivated those 

 ornaments to the visage of which he pos- 

 sessed an exuberant growth, though not 

 to the extent of the great millionaire of 

 the present day ; but, believing that I had 

 already reached to man's estate, the insinua- 

 tion roused my irritability, and, jumping 

 across the table, I insisted upon his paying 



