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He had spent rather a jovial evening with some 

 friends, and was not inclined to get up in the morn- 

 ing. All at once his wife came to him, and began 

 to upbraid him, saying : 



" Oh dear, Tom, how can you lie sleeping there, 

 knowing you owe the money you do ?" 



He directly said : 



" My dear, I wonder how those fellows sleep that 

 I owe it to ; it is more likely to disturb their rest 

 than it is mine." 



Another good thing he said was about his master, 

 Mr. Cartwright. Someone was talking about him 

 being lucky. 



" God bless you, my boy," he said, " if he was to 

 fall off London Bridge naked he would be sure to 

 come up with a new suit of clothes, and a gold 

 watch in his pocket." 



I remember Olliver once bringing a chestnut 

 mare named 'Columbia' (belonging to Mr. E. C. 

 Burton, who won the two first Grand National 

 Hunt Steeplechases run at Market Harborough on 

 ' Bridegroom ' and ' Oueensferry ') to Newmarket to 

 run in the Cambridgeshire. He had been out with 

 some of his pals in the afternoon, and came back to 

 meet Mr. Cartwright, who brought some friends to 

 see the mare in the stable. Tom kept very quiet 



