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from Oakham, He and his horse and everything 

 belonging to him were all down together, and to 

 achieve the feat of getting up again, there was, of 

 course, a considerable struggle, for horse and rider 

 seemed pretty well tied up in a knot, it being in some 

 deepish ground. In getting up his horse put his foot 

 upon his nose, and poor Parson Empson when he 

 arrived on his feet found that his nose was pretty 

 nearly cut off, his face bleeding, and all over mud. 

 He cut but a poor figure, for his beauty was 

 fairly spoilt. 



He seemed hardly to know what was to be done, 

 for there was nobody out competent to set in order 

 his unfortunate olfactory organ. After some little 

 indecision he made up his mind to take his nose 

 off to the doctor's at Oakham to get it dressed 

 and set to rights. 



Accordingly, pulling out his handkerchief, he 

 wrapped it up in it as w r ell as he could, and started 

 off to the aforesaid town, where, luckily for him, he 

 found the then well-known Sawbones, by name Mr. 

 Orange, at home. After having shown the damaged 

 organ, Mr. Orange pronounced the following " Well, 

 Mr. Empson, you've got a very nasty cut, and your 

 nose is almost off. I can do which you like. Either 



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