O'Brallaghan had two or three months
before been bound over in a large sum to keep the peace of the
commonwealth against the inhabitants of the said commonwealth,
and especially that portion of them who dwelt in the borough of
Winchester; which fact Mr. Jinks was well acquainted with, and shaped
his conduct by. If there was anything which O'Brallaghan preferred to
a personal encounter with fists or shillelahs, that object was money;
and Mr. Jinks knew that O'Brallaghan would not touch him.
Therefore Mr. Jinks sent words of defiance and menace after the
retreating individual, and said to the crowd, with dignified calmness:
"My friends, I call you to bear witness that I have offered to give
this--this--person," said Mr. Jinks, "the amplest satisfaction in my
power for the unfortunate conduct of my animal, which I have just
purchased at a large sum, and have not exactly learned to manage yet.
We have not come to understand each other--myself and Fodder--just
yet; and in passing with a young man whom I kindly permitted to mount
behind me, the animal ran into the shop of this--individual.
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