But by and by the thing dragged through, and everything was sold⁠—everything but a little old trifling lot in the graveyard. So they’d got to work that off⁠—I never see such a girafft as the king was for wanting to swallow everything . Well, whilst they was at it a steamboat landed, and in about two minutes up comes a crowd a-whooping and yelling and laughing and carrying on, and singing out:

“ Here’s your opposition line! here’s your two sets o’ heirs to old Peter Wilks⁠—and you pays your money and you takes your choice!”