At the appointed hour the Yorkshireman reached Great Coram Street, just as Old Jorrocks had opened the door to look down the street for him.  He was dressed in a fine flowing, olive-green frock (made like a dressing-gown), with a black velvet collar, having a gold embroidered stag on each side, gilt stag-buttons, with rich embossed edges; an acre of buff waistcoat, and a most antediluvian pair of bright yellow-ochre buckskins, made by White, of Tarporley, in the twenty-first year of the reign of George the Third; they were double-lashed, back-stiched, front-stiched, middle-stiched, and patched at both knees, with a slit up behind.  The coat he had won in a bet, and the breeches in a raffle, the latter being then second or third hand.  His boots were airing before the fire, consequently he displayed an amplitude of calf in grey worsted stockings, while his feet were thrust into green slippers.  “So glad to see you”! said he; “here’s a charming morning, indeed—­regular southerly wind and a cloudy sky—­rare scenting it will be—­think I could almost run a stag myself.  Come in—­never mind your hat, hang it anywhere, but don’t make a noise.  I stole away and left Mrs. J——­ snoring, so won’t do to wake her, you know.  By the way, you should see my hat;—­Batsey, fatch my hat out of the back parlour.  I’ve set up a new green silk cord, with a gold frog to fasten it to my button-hole—­werry illigant, I think, and werry suitable to the dress—­quite my own idea—­have a notion all the Surrey chaps will get them; for, between you and me, I set the fashions, and what is more, I sometimes set them at a leap too.  But now tell me, have you any objection to breakfasting in the kitchen?—­more retired, you know, besides which you get everything hot and hot, which is what I call doing a bit of plisure.”  “Not at all,” said the Yorkshireman, “so lead the way”; and down they walked to the lower regions.

It was a nice comfortable-looking place, with a blazing fire, half the floor covered with an old oil-cloth, and the rest exhibiting the cheerless aspect of the naked flags.  About a yard and a half from the fire was placed the breakfast table; in the centre stood a magnificent uncut ham, with a great quartern loaf on one side and a huge Bologna sausage on the other; besides these there were nine eggs, two pyramids of muffins, a great deal of toast, a dozen ship-biscuits, and half a pork-pie, while a dozen kidneys were spluttering on a spit before the fire, and Betsy held a gridiron covered with mutton-chops on the top; altogether there was as much as would have served ten people.  “Now, sit down,” said Jorrocks, “and let us be doing, for I am as hungry as a hunter.  Hope you are peckish too; what shall I give you? tea or coffee?—­but take both—­coffee first and tea after a bit.  If I can’t give you them good, don’t know who can.  You must pay your devours, as we say in France, to the ’am, for it is an especial fine one, and do take a few eggs with it; there, I’ve not given you above