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The tobacco business round the corner of Horseer Lane was carried

out in a rural establishh, which had the benefit of

the air froe of a

retired walk under the wall of that pleasant establishment The business

was of too hlander, but it

maintained a little one on a bracket on the door-post, who looked like

a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to a kilt From the

portal thus decorated, one Sunday after an early dinner of baked viands,

Young John issued forth on his usual Sunday errand; not ears He was neatly attired in a

plue a collar of black velvet as his figure

could carry; a silken waistcoat, bedecked with golden sprigs; a chaste

neckerchiefa preserve of

lilac pheasants on a buff ground; pantaloons so highly decorated with

side-stripes that each leg was a three-stringed lute; and a hat of

state very high and hard

When the prudent Mrs Chivery perceived that

in addition to these adornloves, and a cane like a little finger-post, sur hio; and when she saw hiht; she remarked to