_Swain._ 2.

_Man._ To the [youth] who is great both in verse and designing, .........

dining.
The eloquence of a prose billet was necessarily resorted to in the absence of the heavenly muse, and the said billet was secretly intrusted to the care of Trotting Nelly.

The same trusty emissary, when refreshed by her nap among the pease-straw, and about to harness her cart for her return to the seacoast, (in the course of which she was to pass the Aultoun,) received another card, written, as he had threatened, by Sir Bingo Binks himself, who had given himself this trouble to secure the settlement of the bet; conjecturing that a man with a fashionable exterior, who could throw twelve yards of line at a cast with such precision, might consider the invitation of Winterblossom as that of an old twaddler, and care as little for the good graces of an affected blue-stocking and her _coterie_, whose conversation, in Sir Bingo's mind, relished of nothing but of weak tea and bread and butter.

Thus the happy Mr.Francis Tyrrel received, considerably to his surprise, no less than three invitations at once from the Well of St.Ronan's.
FOOTNOTE: [I-13] The one or the other was equally _in votis_ to Ascanius,-- "Optat aprum, aut fulvum descendere monte leonem." Modern Trojans make a great distinction betwixt these two objects of chase..