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This touched Young Jerry on a tender place; who
adjured his motherto perform her first duty, and, whatever else she did or neglected,above all things to lay especial stress on the discharge of thatmaternal function so affectingly and delicately indicated by his otherparent.
Thus the evening wore away with the Cruncher family, until YoungJerry was ordered to bed, and his mother, laid under similarinjunctions, obeyed them. Mr. Cruncher beguiled the earlier watches ofthe night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursionuntil nearly one o'clock. Towards that small and ghostly hour, he roseup from his chair, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, arope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature. Disposingthese articles about him in skilful manner, he bestowed a partingdefiance on Mrs. Cruncher, extinguished scholarship
the light, ,opened a lockedcupboard and went out.
Young Jerry, who had only made a feint of undressing when he went tobed, was not long after his father. Under cover of the darkness hefollowed out of the room, followed down the stairs, followed downthe court, followed out into the streets. He was in no uneasinessconcerning his getting into the house again, for it was full oflodgers, and the door stood ajar all night.
Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery ofhis father's honest calling, Young Jerry, keeping as close to housefronts, walls, and doorways, as his eyes were close to one another,held his honoured parent in view. The honoured parent steeringNorthward, had not gone far, when he was joined by another disciple ofIzaak Walton, and the two trudged on together.
Within half an hour from the first starting, they were beyond thewinking lamps, and the more than winking watchmen, and were out upon alonely road. Another fisherman was picked up here- and that sosilently, that if Young Jerry had been superstitious, he might havesupposed the second follower of the gentle craft to have, all of asudden, split himself into two.