Twenty minutes past six
I am told -LRB- I know not how truly -RRB- that two post-chaises have arrived at the Original Pig within the last half-hour , and I myself observed a wheelbarrow , containing three carpet bags and a bundle , entering the yard of the Pig and Tinder-box no longer ago than five minutes since . The people are still quietly pursuing their ordinary occupations ; but there is a wildness in their eyes , and an unwonted rigidity in the muscles of their countenances , which shows to the observant spectator that their expectations are strained to the very utmost pitch . I fear , unless some very extraordinary arrivals take place to-night , that consequences may arise from this popular ferment , which every man of sense and feeling would deplore . ' ` _ Twenty minutes past six _ . ` I have just heard that the boy who fell through the pastrycook 's window last night has died of the fright . He was suddenly called upon to pay three and sixpence for the damage done , and his constitution , it seems , was not strong enough to bear up against the shock . The inquest , it is said , will be held to-morrow . '