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fess'd Romance, which, before, was a book apocryphal:—If I am thus pressed.—I then put an end to the whole objection and controversy about it all at once,—by acquainting him, that Obadiah had not got above threescore yards from the stable-yard before he met with Dr. Slop;—and indeed he gave a dirty proof that he had met with him,—and was within an ace of giving a tragical one too.
Imagine to yourself;—but this had better begin a new chapter.
CHAP. IX.
IMagine to yourself a little, squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height,
