If it wasn't, I wish I may be shot! "Says he, 'What will you have, sir ?' And says I, 'You may well say that, after stealing my goose.' And he began to laugh.

Then says I, 'Mister, laugh if you please; but I don't half-like sich tricks upon travellers.' I then filled my plate with bacon and greens.

And whenever I looked up or down the table, I held on to my plate with my left hand.
"When we were all done eating, they cleared everything off the table, and took away the table-cloth.

And what do you think?
There was another cloth under it.

If there wasn't, I wish I may be shot! Then I saw a man coming along carrying a great glass thing, with a glass handle below, something like a candlestick.