Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, Are you full inside? Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, I am quite full inside; that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me. β¨ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Book by John G. Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
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