to be no more of these d---d fine blows, gentlemen? For shame, to
give up such a profitable and edifying game!"

"This is too bad," said George. "But, since it is thus, I have the
less to regret." And, having made this general remark, he took no
more note of the uncouth aggressor. But the persecution of the
latter terminated not on the play-ground: he ranked up among
them, bloody and disgusting as he was, and, keeping close by his
brother's side, he marched along with the party all the way to the
Black Bull. Before they got there, a great number of boys and idle
people had surrounded them, hooting and incommoding them
exceedingly, so that they were glad to get into the inn; and the
unaccountable monster actually tried to get in alongst with them,
to make one of the party at dinner. But the innkeeper and his
men, getting the hint, by force prevented him from entering,
although he attempted it again and again, both by telling lies and
offering a bribe. Finding he could not prevail, he set to exciting
the mob at the door to acts of violence; in which he had like to
have succeeded. The landlord had no other shift, at last, but to
send privately for two officers, and have him carried to the guard-
house; and the hilarity and joy of the party of young gentlemen,
for the evening, was quite spoiled by the inauspicious termination
of their game.

The Rev. Robert Wringhim was now to send for, to release his
beloved ward. The messenger found him at table, with a number
of the leaders of the Whig faction, the Marquis of Annandale
being in the chair; and, the prisoner's note being produced,
Wringhim read it aloud, accompanying it with some explanatory
remarks. The circumstances of the case being thus magnified and