The things we do!

When he
read it, he jumped out of bed and swore most awful. I cut as soon as I
could," continued Mr. Bowman, who was on familiar--nay contemptuous terms
with the other two gentlemen.
"Enough to make any man swear," says Toddy to Henchman; and both were
alarmed in their noble souls, reflecting that their chieftain was now
actually getting up and dressing himself; that he would speedily, and in
course of nature, come downstairs; and, then, most probably, would begin
swearing at them.
The most noble Mungo Malcolm Angus was in an awful state of mind when, at
length, he appeared in the breakfast-room. "Why the dash do you make a
taproom of this?" he cries. The trembling Henchman, who has begun to
smoke--as he has done a hundred times before in this bachelor's hall--
flings his cigar into the fire.
"There you go--nothing like it! Why don't you fling some more in? You can
get 'em at Hudson's for five guineas a pound." bursts out the youthful
peer.
"I understand why you are out of sorts, old boy," says Henchman,
stretching out his manly hand.


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