I am the company's acting deputy-assistant surveyor, and having surveyed this company, I mean to be made a participator in those good things of which they seem to be in full possession. Yes, Mr. Gurney, as King Arthur says—
'It is our royal will and pleasure to be drunk;
And this, our friend, shall be as drunk as we.'
Who knows but we may make an agreeable and permanent acquaintance with this interesting family?"
"But," said I, "you don't even know their name."
"You are in error," replied Daly; "the man's name is known to me."
"Then perhaps you are known to him," said I.
"That is a non sequitur," said Daly; "I knew nothing of him before I landed here—now I am au-fait—my friend in the powder and sticking-plasters calls his master Sir Timothy. There are hundreds of Sir Timothies; but what do I, upon hearing this little distinctive appellation, but glance my eye to the livery-button of the lacquey—and what do I see there? a serpent issuing from and piercing a garb or gerb. The crest is unique—ergo, my new acquaintance is neither more nor less than Sir Timothy Dod."
"Why," said I, "you are, like myself, a bit of a herald, too!"