25/26 A nobbler of brandy's worth ten of it. It's the glory of out-facing the swells at their own game. There was a chap over in the other colony shod his horse with gold,--and he had to go shepherding afterwards for thirty pounds a-year and his grub. But it's something for him to have ridden a horse with gold shoes. You've never seen a bucketful of cham--paign in the old country ?' When both Dick and Caldigate had owned that they had never encountered luxury so superabundant, and had discussed the matter in various shapes,--asking whether the bucket had been emptied, and other questions of the same nature,--Caldigate inquired of his friend whether he knew Mick Maggott? |