" SUCH A GETTING UP STAIES." 3 



" Then, 1 suppose, you mean to say tlie governor 

 will leave his plate for his creditors some fine clay." 



" No, no, too ' wide awake' for that, Dawson ; master 

 is not one to ' say die,' and at all events there is no 

 danger of that yet ; but when the game is really up, 

 there's nothing like electro, best electro plated ; that's 

 the ticket for creditors, old fellow ; he has too much 

 respect for his family to let the old plate go any 

 where but into his own pocket." ' 



" You'll excuse me," said Dawson, " but for a man 

 of honour, which you often say you are, I suspect the 

 school you went to had a particular kind of honour 

 they served out as lessons to young gentlemen." 



" Come, come. Master Dawson, there are little 

 secrets we only tell to particular friends, and they are 

 at all events better than your stable tricks, that you 

 favour your friends with occasionally." 



" Why, I'll tell you what it is, my worthy ; you 

 have given me a wrinkle or two, as you call them in 

 your way, and have been pleased to say I want a 

 string to me, if I go out ; now, I rather think, if you 

 and I went out in my ' line of country,' I might want 

 a coupling rein to keep you safe ; but we have the 

 advantage of you in any thing like your allectro- 

 plated practices : we acts upon principle ; — always 

 act upon principle, whatever you do." 



" Capital," cried Pettatt ; " so, I suppose, principle 

 means lame, blind, and broken- winded, horses palmed 

 by one gentleman on another, upon his honour, as 

 sound ones; if that is the case, I say, for principle, 

 read, horse chaunting." 



" Now, Pettatt, you are getting vulgar; as I once 

 read in a story book, ' be familiar, but by no means 

 vulgar.' Now, I am quite wilhng to say that when 



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