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saw him he wore both a nose and a moustache, 

 and I dunna ken hoo I've exaggerated onything 

 in my description o' his personal appearance. Can 

 I help it if the young lady chooses to take it in a 

 wrong lio-ht ? Sarve her weel right too. Did. I no' 

 hear her jeering at me as I first came in the room, 

 and telline; the other lasses that the Fehringees 

 (Europeans) were a clever and wise people, for they 

 always choose the smallest and ugliest old men 

 to make doctors of, as then there was no fear of 

 the women falling in love wi' them ? Ugh ! Ugh ! 

 Ugh ! But I paid her out in her own coin." And 

 the doctor's grunts reminded me of a cat well- 

 pleased. 



" Bravo ! doctor," I exclaimed, " you have done 

 remarkably well, and deserve a leather medal for 

 your gallantry in the attack ; as, besides getting us 

 the nautch, you have done your best to disgust the 

 young lady with the thoughts of her future husband, 

 which perhaps may prove to our advantage, for she 

 may now feel disposed to take a more favourable 

 view of mankind in general, as up to the present 

 time she has certainly been, like the flower, 'doomed 

 to blush unseen/ and waste her sweetness upon such 

 disgusting lumps of humanity as the begum's blubber- 

 lipp'd guardians of the fold." 



"Yes," said Jock, "I think old 'Bones' has 

 played his game with a great deal of management, 

 and shown that, although he is perhaps a rum one 

 to look at, he is a good one to go. So here 's your 



