Mr. Crampton showed this to his nephew with great glee, and waschuckling to think how Mr. William Pitt Scully would be annoyed, whohad expected the place, when Perkins burst out laughing and exclaimed,"By heavens, here is my own speech! Scully has spoken every word ofit; he has only put in Mr. Pincher's name in the place of Mr.Macabaw's."

"He is ours now," responded his uncle, "and I told you WE W0ULD HAVEHIM F0R N0THING. I told you, too, that you should be married fromSir David Gorgon's, and here is proof of it."