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Puffington,"' adding, 'hadn't we better say something about the
meet and the grand spread here before we begin with the run?'
'True,' replied Jack, after a long-drawn whiff and another adjustment of
the end of his cigar; 'say that "a splendid field of well-appointed
sportsmen"--'
'A splendid field of well-appointed sportsmen,' wrote Sponge.
'"Among whom we recognized several distinguished strangers and members of
Lord Scamperdale's hunt." That means you and I,' observed Jack.
'"Of Lord Scamperdale's hunt--that means you and I"'--read Sponge, as he
wrote it.
'But you're not to put in that; you're not to write "that means you and I,"
my man,' observed Jack.
'Oh, I thought that was part of the sentence,' replied Sponge.
'No, no,' said Jack; 'I meant to say that you and I were the distinguished
strangers and members of Lord Scamperdale's hunt; but that's between
ourselves, you know.'
'Good,' said Sponge; 'then I'll strike that out,' running his pen through
the words 'that means you and I.' 'Now get on,' said he, appealing to Jack,
adding, 'we've a deal to do yet.


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