'Wot, I s'pose you happened to drive up agin a post or two?' said Sam.
'I'm afeerd,' replied Mr. Weller, in a rapture of winks—'I'm afeerd I took vun or two on 'em, Sammy; he wos a-flyin' out o' the arm-cheer all the way.
Here the old gentleman shook his head from side to side, and was seized with a hoarse internal rumbling, accompanied with a violent swelling of the countenance, and a sudden increase in the breadth of all his features; symptoms which alarmed his son not a little.