Show HOW THEY GOT UT A ROW At one of the Croydon inns Hook and Matthew got up a mock quarrel before a large company The wit and the comedian come-dian each appealed most earnestly to the sympathy of the company who with the true British predilection for anything In the shape of a row eagerly espoused the side of one of other of the champions champi-ons onsThe contest proceeded and Hooks cool invectives as we are told grew more and more cutting and the gesticulations of Mathews more wild and extravagant blows followed and the partisans full or gin and valor soon followed the example or their principals general gen-eral melee succeeded the candles were knocked out tables and chairs overthrown the passes I sparkled on the boards and in the midst of the confusion just in time to avoid the arri val of the police the promoters of the riot unobserved effected their escape i their excitable adherents to leaving thElr compute i com-pute at leisure the amount of damage I done to their persons and property and to explain if possible to a magistrate In the morning the cause and object of the combat Temple Bar |