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Aood company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn't

robbed the pantry, in a false position Not because I was squeezed in

at an acute angle of the tablecloth, with the table in my chest, and the

Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak

(I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips

of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork

of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain No;

I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone

But they wouldn't leave me alone They seemed to think the opportunity

lost, if they failed to point the conversation at ht have been an unfortunate

little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so san the race with

theatrical declaious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,--and

ended with the very proper aspiration that we rateful

Upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said, in a low