Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. In which it apptari that the Knight', when hear lily fet in for Jleeping) was not eajily dijlwbed. TN all probability the kitchen of the Black Lion, from a domeftic temple of fo- ciety, and good-fellowfhip, would have been converted into a fcene or frage of fan- guinary difpute, had not Pallas or Difcre- tion interpofed in the perfon of Mr. Fillet, and with the affiftance of the hoftler, dif- armed the combatants not only of their arms, but alfo of their refentment. The impetuofity of Mr. Clarke was a little checked at fight of the gridiron, which Ferret brandifhed with uncommon dexterity; a circumftance from whence the company were, upon reflexion, induced to believe, that before he plunged into the fea of politics, he had occafionally figured in the character of that facetious droll, who £2 accomaccompanies your itinerant phyficians, under the familiar appellations of Merry- Andrew, or Jack-Pudding, and on a wooden ftage entertains the populace with a folo on the falt-box, or a fonata on the tongs and gridiron. Be that as it may, thb young lawyer feemed to be a little difcom- pofed at the glancing of this extraordinary weapon of offence, which the fair hands of Dolly had fcoured, until it'fhone as bright as the fhield of Achilles ; ors the emblem of good old Englifh fare, which hangs by a red ribbon roun4 the neck of that thrice-honoured fage's head, -in .velvet bonnet cafed, who prefides by'rotation at the genial board, diftinguifhed by the title of the Beef-flake Club: where the delicate rumps irrefiftibly attraft the ftranger's eye, and, while they feem to cry "Come cut me—come cut me," conftrain, by wonderous fympathy, each mouth to. overflow : where the obliging and humourous Jemmy B 1, the gentle Billy H d, replete with .human kindnefs, and the ge- i...