'en.«
    »Well, wot's that got to do vith it?« inquired Mr. Weller.
    »Just this here,« said Sam, »that I'll patronise the inwention, and go in,
that vay. No visperin's to the Chancellorship, I don't like the notion. It
mayn't be altogether safe, vith reference to gettin' out agin.«
    Deferring to his son's feeling upon this point, Mr. Weller at once sought
the erudite Solomon Pell, and acquainted him with his desire to issue a writ,
instantly, for the sum of twenty-five pounds, and costs of process; to be
executed without delay upon the body of one Samuel Weller; the charges thereby
incurred, to be paid in advance to Solomon Pell.
    The attorney was in high glee, for the embarrassed coach-horser was ordered
to be discharged forthwith. He highly approved of Sam's attachment to his
master; declared that it strongly reminded him of his own feelings of devotion
to his friend, the Chancellor; and at once led the elder Mr. Weller down to the
Temple, to swear the affidavit of debt, which the boy, with the assistance of
the blue bag, had drawn up on the spot.
    Meanwhile, Sam, having been formally introduced to the whitewashed gentleman
and his friends, as the offspring of Mr. Weller, of the Belle Savage, was
treated with marked distinction, and invited to regale himself with them in
honour of the occasion; an invitation which he was by no means backward in
accepting.
    The mirth of gentlemen of this class is of a grave and quiet character,
usually; but the present instance was one of peculiar festivity, and they
relaxed in proportion. After some rather tumultuous toasting of the Chief
Commissioner and Mr. Solomon Pell, who had that day displayed such transcendent
abilities, a mottled-faced gentleman in a blue shawl proposed that somebody
should sing a song. The obvious suggestion was, that the mottled-faced
gentleman, being anxious for a song, should sing it himself; but this the
mottled-faced gentleman sturdily, and somewhat offensively, declined to do. Upon
which, as is not unusual in such cases, a rather angry colloquy ensued.
    »Gentlemen,« said the coach-horser, »rather than disturb the harmony of this
delightful occasion, perhaps Mr. Samuel Weller will oblige the company.«
    »Raly, gentlemen,« said Sam, »I'm not wery much in the habit o' singin'
without the instrument; but anythin
