Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen
[Footnote: See Note 2.] under my belt, and then they persuaded me
to draw the paper. Then we had to seek Driver, and it was all that
two men could do to bear him in, for, when found, he was, as it
happened, both motionless and speechless. But no sooner was his
pen put between his fingers, his paper stretched before him, and
he heard my voice, than he began to write like a scrivener; and,
excepting that we were obliged to have somebody to dip his pen in
the ink, for he could not see the standish, I never saw a thing
scrolled more handsomely.'

'But how did your joint production look the next morning?' said
the Colonel.

'Wheugh! capital! not three words required to be altered:
[Footnote: See Note 3. ] it was sent off by that day's post. But
you'll come and breakfast with me to-morrow, and hear this woman's
examination?'

'Why, your hour is rather early.'

'Can't make it later. If I were not on the boards of the Outer
House precisely as the nine-hours' bell rings, there would be a
report that I had got an apoplexy, and I should feel the effects
of it all the rest of the session.'

'Well, I will make an exertion to wait upon you.'

Here the company broke up for the evening.