? ? ? ? "This is a surprise to me which I wasn't looking for; and I'll acknowledge, candid and frank, I ain't very well fixed to meet it and answer it; for my brother and me has had misfortunes, he's broke his arm, and our baggage got put off at a town above here, last night in the night by a mistake. I am Peter Wilks's brother Harvey, and this is his brother William, which can't hear nor speak- and can't even make signs to amount to much, now't he's only got one hand to work them with. We are who we say we are; and in a day or two, when I get the baggage, I can prove it. But, up till then, I won't say nothing more, but go to the hotel and wait."
? ? ? ? So him and the new dummy started off; and the king he laughs, and blethers out:
? ? ? ? "Broke his arm- very likely ain't it?- and very convenient, too, for a fraud that's got to make signs, and hain't learnt how.
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