'Old 'hogany-tops
goin' to be spliced!'
'Did you ever?' asked Bob Spangles.
'No, I _never_,' replied Captain Bouncey.
'He should be called Spooney Sponge, not Soapey Sponge,' observed Captain
Seedeybuck.
'Well, but to whom?' asked Captain Bouncey.
'Ah, to whom indeed! That's the question,' rejoined her ladyship archly.
'I know,' observed Bob Spangles.
'No, you don't.'
'Yes, I do.'
'Who is it, then?' demanded her ladyship.
'Lucy Glitters, to be sure,' replied Bob, who hadn't had his stare out of
the billiard-room window for nothing.
'Pity her,' observed Bouncey, sprawling along the billiard-table to play
for a cannon.
'Why?' asked Lady Scattercash.
'Reg'lar scamp,' replied Bouncey, vexed at missing his stroke.
'Dare say you know nothing about him,' snapped her ladyship.
'Don't I?' replied Bouncey complacently; adding, 'that's all you know.'
'He'll whop her, to a certainty,' observed Seedeybuck.
'What makes you think that?' asked her ladyship.
'Oh--ha--hem--haw--why, because he whopped his poor horse--whopped him over
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