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Burrell. He must have been a second 

 Captain Barclay in those days: he should 

 walk a little more now; he is growing too 

 fat and listless. The Duchess is of pious 

 and domestic habits, I understand conducts 

 a ladies' penny-a-week tract society in Aln- 

 wick, and has the finest breed of pigs in 

 the kingdom. 



Bell. You are out there. There may be 

 some truth about the pigs; but as to the 

 penny-a-week concern, some one has been 

 hoaxing you, or perhaps you are treating us 

 with a " slice of your own gammon/' Allow 

 me now to give a toast it needs no long 

 preface ; but when the thing is in my mind, 

 I must notice it. You have observed the 

 Black Bull's Head, that swings so bravely 

 at our landlord's door? That is the crest 

 of the Widdringtons, whose pennon has been 

 unfurled in a hundred border forays : I shall 

 give you their descendant, the Lord of the 

 Manor, Riddell of Felton. 



All. Riddell of Felton ! 



