" This is a most unlucky axdent, to be sure, Charles,"
says master to me, after a few minnits paws, during
which he had been and wrote a note, put it into an an-
velope, and sealed it with his bigg seal of arms. " But
stay — a thought strikes me — ^take this note to Mr. Daw-
Mns, and that pye yon brought yesterday ; and hearkye,
you scoundrel, if yon jay where you got it I will break
every bone in your sMn !"

These kiad of prommises were among the few which
I knew him to keep : and as I loved boath my skinn
and my boans, I carried the noat, and, of cors, said no-
think. Waiting in Mr. Dawkinses chambus for a few
minnits, I returned to my master with an anser. I may



46 THE rBLLOWPLUSH PAPERS.
as well give both of these documence, of which I happen
to have taken coppies.
" The Hon. A. P. Deuckacb to T. S. Dawkins, Esq.
" Temple, Tuesday.
"Mr. Deuoeace presents his compliments to Mr.
Dawkins, and begs at the same time to offer his most
sincere apologies and regrets for the accident which has
just taken place.
" May Mr. Deuceace be allowed to take a neigh-
bour's privilege, and to remedy the evil he has occa-
sioned to the best of his power ? If Mr. Dawkins will
do him the favom- to partake of the contents of the ac-
companying case (from Strasburg direct, and the gift of
a fiiend, on whose taste as a gourmand Mr. Dawkins
may rely), perhaps he will find that it is not a bad sub-
stitute for the plat which Mr. Deuceace's awkwardness
destroyed.
