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LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.
"Here," said Mr.Sick, "is an invitation for you and me, and minister to go and visit Sir Littleeared Bighead, down to Yorkshire.

You can go if you like, and for once, p'raps it's worth goin' to see how these chaps first kill time, and then how time kills them in turn.

Eatin', drinkin', sleepin', growlin', fowlin', and huntin' kills time; and gout, aperplexy, dispepsy, and blue devils kills them.

They are like two fightin' dogs, one dies of the thrashin' he gets, and t'other dies of the wounds he got a killin' of him.