gained the third floor, and stood before a door, over which the
moonlight revealed, in newly-painted white letters, the name of "MR.
VERDANT GREEN."

"Well, old feller," said the first gentleman, "how do you feel now,
after 'Sich a getting up stairs'?"

"Feel much berrer now," said their late burden; "feel quite-comfurble!
Shallgotobed!"

"Well, Giglamps," said the first speaker, "and By-by won't be at all
a bad move for you. D'ye think you can unrig yourself and get
between the sheets, eh, my beauty?"

"Its allri, allri!" was the reply; "limycandle!"

"No, no," said the second gentleman, as he pulled up the
window-blind, and let in the moonlight; "here's quite as much light
as you want. It's almost morning."

"Sotis," said the gentleman in the evening costume: "anlittlebirds
beginsingsoon! Ilike littlebirds sing! jollittlebirds!" The speaker
had suddenly fallen upon his bed, and was lying thereon at full
length, with his feet on the pillow.


[78 ADVENTURES OF MR. VERDANT GREEN]

"He'll be best left in this way," said the second speaker, as he
removed the pillow to the proper place, and raised the prostrate