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A COURT, A COURT-DRESS, AND A COURTIER--JUSTICE IN.
VARIOUS ASPECTS, AS WELL AS HONOR.
My guests were no sooner gone, than I sent for the landlady, to inquire if any court-dresses were to be had in the neighborhood.

She told me plenty might certainly be had, that were suited to the monikin dimensions, but she much doubted whether there was a tail in all Leaphigh, natural or artificial, that was at all fit for a person of my stature.

This was vexatious; and I was in a brown study, calling up all my resources for the occasion, when Mr.Poke entered the inn, carrying in his hand two as formidable ox-tails as I remember ever to have seen.
Throwing one towards me, he said the lord high admiral of Leaphigh had acquainted him that there was an invitation out for the prince and himself, as well as for the governor of the former, to be present at court within an hour.

He had hurried off from what he called a very good dinner, considering there was nothing solid (the captain was particularly fond of pickled pork), to let me know the honor that was intended us; and on the way home, he had fallen in with Dr.Reasono, who, on being acquainted with his errand, had not failed to point out the necessity of the whole party coming en habit de cour.