I have brought it to bear finely: however, all I have laid out upon it goes for nothing--thou shalt have it with all its appurtenances; I ask nothing but leave to go home." NIC.

FROG .-- The counsel are fee'd, and all things prepared for a trial; thou shalt be forced to stand the issue; it shall be pleaded in thy name as well as mine.

Go home if thou canst; the gates are shut, the turnpikes locked, and the roads barricaded.* * Difficulty of the march of part of the army to Dunkirk.
JOHN BULL .-- Even these very ways, Nic., that thou toldest me were as open to me as thyself, if I can't pass with my own equipage, what can I expect for my goods and wagons?
I am denied passage through those very grounds that I have purchased with my own money.

However, I am glad I have made the experiment; it may serve me in some stead.
John Bull was so overjoyed that he was going to take possession of Ecclesdown, that nothing could vex him.

"Nic.," quoth he, "I am just a-going to leave thee; cast a kind look upon me at parting." Nic.