porters a few feet in the air, before pwopelling him into the nearest guttaw."
"A very unpleasant feeling, most certainly."
"Vewy true, sah!"
"Yes, sah, especially when you know your stwaps are too tight to admit of any such use of your unmentionable members," squeaked the dwarf, mockingly, who had sat unmoved within hearing distance of the whole conversation.
A roar of laughter followed this speech, through which the dandy sat frowning darkly. When it ceased, he sprang near the dwarf, shouting:
"You mean to insult me, do you, eh?"
"Hope you wouldn't notice such a scamp as me, sah!" squeaked the dwarf in answer.
"I will pwummel your cwooked legs, sah!"
"Wipe that off of your own, sah, first," cried the other, dexterously turning a fresh plate of bean soup over the dandy's "spwotless cassimeres."
Another roar of laughter followed this act, amid which the exquisite made his exit with his pocket hankerchief spread over his lap, swearing he would "go stwaight and sue for dwamages," that he was "scalded to death by the dem beggar, and he would have revenge for his ruined trousers, be gar!"