39° Saddle and Sirloin. 



each other most lustily. The latter uses legal terms 

 "like a very learned clerk," and eventually gets a 

 majority of more than two to one to dismiss the 

 case. 



Fifteen years before, we had left Liverpool for the 

 ground on Bob Castle's coach, behind four spanking 

 greys, with Mr. Nightingale on the box seat, and 

 several Scotland Yet enthusiasts as our freight. In 

 '64, Tithebarn-street station was the trysting place. 

 A man on the very outskirts of the crowd seemed 

 green and indifferent, and his mate was exhorting 

 him : " TJieese com this far — doant go back, lad, its 

 sic fun — they nobbut louse two dogs at yence — there's 

 hot pot and dyke-jumping, and d manner of things" 

 " Owdham chaps" and " Boulton fellies" were there 

 by the dozen. They are a rough lot, and on big ex- 

 cursion days there is sometimes a regular swearing 

 match between them and those " Peter the Wild Boy" 

 sort of officials which abound in Lancashire. To do 

 the latter justice, they have no respect of persons. 

 Once upon a time, the late Secretary of the North- 

 western was travelling along a loop Wigan and 

 Kenyon junction line, when the station-master put his 

 head into a first-class carriage and said . "Now then 

 yd c J taps for Chow Bent, Checquer Bent, and Bank 

 Lane, get out wid ye /" The secretary objected to such 

 official language, and said quite indignantly, " Don't 

 you know who I am ?" " Ye'es" said the man ; " Huish 

 — secretary — two thoosand a year" and passed on to 

 the next carriage, "Now then yd chaps, &c." There 

 seemed from the heavy train to be few Liverpool 

 laggards by the stuff this day. Away they leapt over 

 the platform rails at Hightown, and the ticket-collector 

 had to " fall back on his supports" in the station, and 

 give collecting up as a bad job. " The Rifles Inn," 

 which looks like a superior Irish cabin, had no charms 

 for them so early, and bending to the left by the stone 

 cross, they went crashing and stumbling over hedge 



