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 2 The comical Adventures of

your horse too, I wish you were both in hell her.

Here M. Spiller took not the least notice of what the hostler had said to him, but left the horse with him in the stable, and goes himself directly into the house to get something to drink.

And the hostler reflecting, that if the horse should be lost, he might swear he left him in his charge, and might, by that means, come upon him for damages, he therefore tied him up to the manger, gave him some hay, and then ran into the house, to acquaint his mistress (for she was a widow) what strange and deaf sort of a fellow she had got to deal with.

By this time, Mr. Spiller was come into the kitchen, and had just called for a pint of red wine, but the good hostess being in a hurry answered him, that she was very sorry that she had no place to ask him to sit down in. When he, not willing to understard her, replied,- 'ts all one to me, madam, if your red wine is not good let me have a pint of white. Just as he had made this contrary answer, in comes the hostler, and as his mistress was endeavouring to make Mr. Spiller understand what she had to say to him, the hostler cried out to her, -Ay, d-n his deaf head, madam, you may