The elder Mr. Weller, who still continued to make various strange and uncouth attempts to appear asleep,offered not a single word during these proceedings;but when Stiggins stopped for breath, he darted upon him, and snatching the tumbler from his hand,threw the remainder of the rum-and-water in his face,and the glass itself into the grate. Then, seizing the reverend gentleman firmly by the collar, he suddenly fell to kicking him most furiously, accompanying every application of his top-boot to Mr. Stiggins's person, with sundry violent and incoherent anathemas upon his limbs, eyes, and body.