... afternoon as best they might- The name of the hostelry was the Cock and Bottle, idd Its croaky signboard displayed a portrait of • Ovid coloured chanticleer gazing intently at • black bottle; but the establishment was familiarly and better known as Purring ...

... good morning—to Mr. Athentone, dill It's needy two o'clock. u' iltrcl; it wan —an unheard-of hour Drizrieton. where the Cock and Bottle rarely a customer after ten o'clock at night ; the landlord had been well pdd, end everytwdy was in high good humour. ...