Hallo! there's old
Readypenny!--a willanous Tory.
OFF-SIDE HORSE.--I beg to remark that my principles are Conservative.
NEAR-SIDE HORSE.--And I beg to remark that mine isn't. I sarved Readypenny
out at Westminster 'lection the other day. He got into our coach to go to
the poll, and I wouldn't draw an inch. I warn't agoing to take up a
plumper for Rous.
OFF-SIDE HORSE.--I declare the obese female returns.
WOMAN.--Coach! Hallo! Coach!
WATERMAN.--Here you is, ma'am. Kuck! kuck! kuck!--Come along!--(_Pulling
the coach and horses_).
OFF-SIDE HORSE.--O heavens! I am too stiff to move, and this brute will
pull my head off.
NEAR-SIDE HORSE.--Keep it on one side, and you spiles his purchase.
WATERMAN--Come up, you old brute!
OFF-SIDE HORSE.--Old brute! What evidence of a low mind!--[_The stout
woman and fat family ascend the steps of the coach_].
COACH.--O law! oh, law! Week! week! O law!--O law! Week! week!
NEAR-SIDE HORSE--Do you hear how the poor old thing's a sufferin'?--She
must feel it a good deal to have her squabs sat on by everybody as can pay
for her. She was built by Pearce, of Long-acre, for the Duchess of
Dorsetshire.
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