36 TENDER. 



per team of four horses and a man per 

 diem. 



Now, my intended partner did no dis- 

 credit to his birthplace, or his bringing 

 up ; for, like his countrymen, he was a 

 man of shrewd intellect and keen per- 

 ception, my senior in age by eleven or 

 twelve years, and had made his calcu- 

 lations on such a scale as almost to 

 ensure the reception of our tender, as 

 well as to avoid the great error of 

 being below what might be, indeed, 

 what was, a remunerative price. 



Accordingly we attended at Somerset 

 House on the day and hour appointed, 

 which was two o'clock in the afternoon. 

 We spent the morning, I remember, in 

 going to Whitechapel, and seeking out 

 what was a great object of interest and 

 curiosity that is, the birth-place of 

 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, four 

 infants of whom a poor woman had re- 

 cently been delivered. 



