If you will say
where he is, I may very likely know some one who can assist us in getting
him. You will excuse this trouble, I hope, considering that it was to serve
you that I moved in the matter, and insisted on returning him to his
lordship, at a loss of L50 to myself, having only given L250 for him.
'I remain, dear Waffles,
'Yours sincerely,
'H. SPONGE.'
'To W. WAFFLES, Esq.,
'Imperial Hotel, Laverick Wells.'
'LAVERICK WELLS.
'DEAR SPONGE,
'I'm afraid Bullfrog will have to make himself happy without his horse, for
I hav'n't the slightest idea where he is. I sold him to a cockneyfied,
countryfied sort of a man, who said he had a small "hindependence of his
own"--somewhere, I believe, about London. He didn't give much for him, as
you may suppose, when I tell you he paid for him chiefly in silver. If I
were you, I wouldn't trouble myself about him.
'Yours very truly,
'W. WAFFLES.
'To H. SPONGE, Esq.'
Our hero addressed Mr. Waffles again, in the course of a few days, as
follows:
'DEAR WAFFLES,
'I am sorry to say Bullfrog won't be put off without the horse.
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