[The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of John Bull CHAPTER XVII 3/6
Frog is still your executor, d'ye see.
If you will not satisfy me as to these points you may drink with the ducks." "And so I will," quoth John, "rather than keep a butler that loves my heir better than myself." Hob the shoemaker, and Pricket the tailor, told him they would most willingly serve him in their several stations if he would promise them never to talk with Lewis Baboon, and let Nicholas Frog, linen-draper, manage his concerns; that they could neither make shoes nor clothes to any that were not in good correspondence with their worthy friend Nicholas. JOHN BULL .-- Call Andrew, my journeyman.
How goes affairs, Andrew? I hope the devil has not taken possession of thy body too. ANDREW .-- No, sir; I only desire to know what you would do if you were dead? JOHN BULL .-- Just as other dead folks do, Andrew.
[Aside.] This is amazing! ANDREW .-- I mean if your nephew shall inherit your estate. JOHN BULL .-- That depends upon himself.
I shall do nothing to hinder him. ANDREW .-- But will you make it sure? JOHN BULL .-- Thou meanest that I should put him in possession, for I can make it no surer without that.
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