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 14 The comical Adventures of

the door, with all my heart; for if you had we might have been all ruined. What could be done with such a man?

One of the gentlemen, being a practitioner of the law, answered the hostess thus,-by G-d, madan, you are very much in the right of it; for though he has no right to the room he is in, yet, as this is a public inn, and he being in possession of it, to break open a door upon him, would be such an assault, as I should not care to be concerned in for a hundred pounds. This speech of the lawyer's soon determined the matter, for down they went very quietly, and left Mr. Spiller secure enough in his lodgings.

In the morning when Mr. Spiller came down he very complaisently bid them all a good morrow, and they, in return, all cursed him heartily for his good humour, and called him a thousand had names, but he understanding never a word that they said, it was all given to the wind.

Here, he desired half a pint of white wine made hot, with an egg bent up in it for his breakfast, and then giving the hostler a shilling for looking after his horse, and a shilling to the maid for warning his bed, he mounted his nag.

Being now settled in his saddle, he desired