and so ladies went, for they always go to executions.
They've got a kinder nateral taste for the horrors, have
women. They like to see people hanged or trod to death,
when they can get a chance. It _was_ a conversation warn't
it? that's all. I couldn't understand a word I heard.
Trap shale Greywachy; a petrified snail, the most important
discovery of modern times. Bank governor's machine weighs
sovereigns, light ones go to the right, and heavy ones
to the left.

"'Stop,' says I, 'if you mean the sovereign people here,
there are none on 'em light. Right and left is both
monstrous heavy; all over weight, every one on 'em. I'm
squeezed to death.'

"'Very good, Mr. Slick. Let me introduce you to ----,'
they are whipt off in the current, and I don't see 'em
again no more. 'A beautiful shew of flowers, Madam, at
the garden: they are all in full blow now. The
rhododendron--had a tooth pulled when she was asleep.'
'Please to let me pass, Sir.' 'With all my heart, Miss,
if I could; but I can't move; if I could I would down on
the carpet, and you should walk over me. Take care of
your feet, Miss, I am off of mine. Lord bless me! what's
this? why as I am a livin' sinner, it's half her frock
hitched on to my coat button. Now I know what that scream
meant.'

"'How do you do, Mr. Slick? When did you come?' 'Why I
came--' he is turned round, and shoved out o' hearin.'