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demanded—Who does this gentleman, want?

But they all stared at himn for some time, but no body claiming any knowledge of him, one of them said to him, Sir, we are a select company, do you want any body, Pray?-No ceremony with me, replied Mr. Spiller, I beg gentlemen, that you will not disturb yourselves upon my account, I can sit anywhere.- D-n the fellow! says another of them, what does he mean? Turn him out of the room!- The servants being all busy, at his first coming into the room, placing the dishes on the table, and putting things to rights, had not observed his coming in before, but now hearing the gentlemen dispute, they coon found the cause of fit, and thereupon said one of them,-Lord, gentlemen! you will get no satisfaction by swearing and quarreling with him; for he is so deaf, that you may fire a cannon at his ear, and he will not hear you. He has been in the kitchen this hour, but no body can make him understand a word that any body says to him. They have been ready to krock out his brains several times, but he never understood them in the least; he is a poor simple honest fellow; I dare say, but what has brought him here, the Lord knows or how you will get him down again, the Lord knows.-Well, well cried one of them, what does it signity! 'Tis better to let him stay here, now he is here; he looks like