When we had finished the land, we were going to break into the house and gardens, to take an inventory of his plate, pictures, and other furniture.
* The Partition Treaty.
** The West Indies.
MRS.

BULL .-- What said Lord Strutt to all this?
JOHN BULL .-- As we had almost finished our concern, we were accosted by some of Lord Strutt's servants.

"Heyday! what's here?
what a devil's the meaning of all these trangrams and gimcracks, gentlemen?
What in the name of wonder, are you going about, jumping over my master's hedges, and running your lines cross his grounds?
If you are at any field pastime, you might have asked leave: my master is a civil well-bred person as any is." MRS.

BULL .-- What could you answer to this?
JOHN BULL .-- Why, truly, my neighbour Frog and I were still hot-headed; we told him his master was an old doting puppy, that minded nothing of his own business; that we were surveying his estate, and settling it for him, since he would not do it himself.

Upon this there happened a quarrel, but we being stronger than they, sent them away with a flea in their ear.