they never possessed before.  But should the stranger win, then there may arise complications incapable of any comfortable solution.  In such a state of things some Herr Vossner must be called in, whose terms are apt to be ruinous.  On this occasion things did not arrange themselves comfortably.  From the very commencement Fisker won, and quite a budget of little papers fell into his possession, many of which were passed to him from the hands of Sir Felix,—­bearing, however, a ‘G’ intended to stand for Grasslough, or an ‘N’ for Nidderdale, or a wonderful hieroglyphic which was known at the Beargarden to mean D. L.,—­or Dolly Longestaffe, the fabricator of which was not present on the occasion.

Then there was the M.G. of Miles Grendall, which was a species of paper peculiarly plentiful...