concerned, smash it when you can catch it.

_Mr. H_. Did you gather whose head it was that they were speaking of?

_Pot_. Yes; his lordship's.

_Mr. H_. (_impressively and plaintively_). And _why_?

_Pot_. Because they said he had jugged their comrades like a damned old
smoutch!

_J. N_. _Jugged_?

_Pot_. Put them in prison, my lord.

_J. N_. (_Aside_: That Norwich affair.) Wait! I must write my self down
a smoutch--smoutch? no doubt a foreign word.

_Mr. H_. What else have you heard the prisoner say.

_Pot_. I have heard him threaten to make her Majesty the Queen take in
washing.

_J. N_. Plain washing?

_Pot_. Yes, my lord.

_J. N_. Not fancy work?

_Pot_. No, my lord.