with you too, you blasted witch! I've peached-I have, by gum!"

"Hwhat?" yelled the woman; then recovering herself, she raised her forefinger menacingly, fixed her horrible eye on Plotski, and ejaculated, as it were an incantation, "Cran- barra! Klimpski khobana!"

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Cranberry yourself! Give me a gi-giglimpse of the cabana, and I'll sh-shmoke

him," cried Plotski.

it (hic); I've sold!

"I tell you I've done

Three figures -Two

(hic), five, nought! that's my price-going, going, gone!" and his head came down with a bang on the table that made the glasses dance.

"He's dronck, jontlemen!" cried the Irresistible; "belayve nothing he says. Come home at wonst, Maximilian!"

"I 'ont, I tell ye. I aint a-goin' to be 'ocus-pocussed about the country —ʼavin' eclectic fits and gammonin' (hic) 'bout

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Bagdad and Leckchures-I'm done with it, I tell ye. Two-five-nought—Cap'n ; come to King's 'Ed t'morrow-you'll 'av it all out."

"I'll be with you at ten," I said.

The woman looked keenly at me, and her countenance changed.

"He's been telling you nonsense, sir," she said. 'You won't trouble to come?"

"Oh! I'll come to ask for the Signor's health," I said, with a laugh, and a look intended to convey the idea, "I only say this to humour him; I won't come."

There was some difficulty in getting the Professor off the premises; but at last the barrack-gates fairly closed upon him and Madame, and fainter and fainter from away down the empty street came back their voices —sounds of fierce vituperation, mingled with the shrill tipsy laughter of the man.