A Reasonable Demand
COLONEL B---- was remarkably fat, and coming one night out of the
playhouse, called a chair; but while he was preparing to squeeze into
it, a friend, who was stepping into his chariot, called out to him,
B----, I go by your door, and will set you down. B---- gave the
chairman a shilling, and was going; when one of them scratched his head,
and hoped his honor would give him more than a shilling. For what, you
scoundrel? when I never got into your chair?--But consider the fright
your honor put us into, replied Pat,--consider the fright!