Here vas a go!—but I see vot vas a clock in a hinstant—and no mistake. So I cotch'd hold on the two butiful chased seals and tugs it out.
"That's the time o' day!" says he, a-cockin' his hugly heye at the dial; "and now," says he, "as you seems frightened at the gun, I shall jist put it out o' harm's way."
And with that he chucks it splash, into a duck-pond, and hoff marches my hold sojer in a jiffy! I vos putrified! and fell to a-blubberin' like a hinfant.
O! Dick, vot's to be done?
You know I ham, at any rate,
Yours truly,
S. SOFTLY.
SCENE XX.
The Courtship of Mr. Wiggins.
The Courtship of Mr. Wiggins.