This introduction served with his own easy assurance, and the deference country servants always pay to London ones, at once to give him standing, and it is creditable to the etiquette of servitude to say, that on joining the 'Mutton Chop and Mealy Potato Club,' at the Cat and Bagpipes, on the second night after his arrival, the whole club rose to receive him on entering, and placed him in the post of honour, on the right of the president.
He was very soon quite at home with the whole of them, and ready to tell anything he knew of the great families in which he had lived.

Of course, he abused the duke's place, and said he had been obliged to give him 'hup' at last, 'bein' quite an unpossible man to live with; indeed, his only wonder was, that he had been able to put hup with him so long.' The duchess was a 'good cretur,' he said, and, indeed, it was mainly on her account that he stayed, but as to the duke, he was--everything that was bad, in short.
Mr.Sponge, on the other hand, had no reason to complain of the colours in which his stud-groom painted him.

Instead of being the shirtless strapper of a couple of vicious hack hunters.

Leather made himself out to be the general superintendent of the opulent owner of a large stud.

The exact number varied with the number of glasses of grog Leather had taken, but he never had less than a dozen, and sometimes as many as twenty hunters under his care.