`` Please , your lordship , '' said William , `` we think Benson have took them away with him . '' `` And where is Benson ? '' `` We do n't know , your lordship . We think he have been come for ! '' `` Come for -- by whom ? '' William stammered , and seemed at a loss for a reply . `` Quick ! answer ! what do you know about it ? '' William said at last , rather as if he were making a speech : `` Your royaliness , and my lords and ladies , it was like this . His royaliness comed in with a rug over his arm , and summat under it . And he lays it down on that there seat , and Thomas shows him into the droring-room . Then Benson says : ` Dinner 'll be ready in five minutes ; how tired I do feel ! ` Then he takes the libbuty of sitting hisself down on his royaliness 's rug , and he says , asking your pardon , ' I 've had about enough of service here . I 'm about tired , and I thinks of bettering myself . I wish I was at the king 's court , and butler . ' -LSB- Illustration : Page 65 -RSB- But before the words was out of his mouth , off he flies like a shot through the open door , and his royaliness 's parcel with him . I run to the door , and there he was , flying right hover the town , in a northerly direction . And that 's all I know ; for I would not tell a lie , not if it was hever so . And me , and Thomas -- as did n't see it , -- and cook , we thinks as how Benson was come for .
And cook says XXXXX she do n't wonder at it , neither ; for a grumblinger , more ill-conditioneder -- '' `` Thank you , William , '' said Lord Kelso ; `` that will do ; you can go , for the present . ''
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