Last night Jones was walking down with me from Staple Inn to Clifford’s
Inn, about 10 o’clock, and we saw the Great Bear standing upright on the
tip of his tail which was coming out of a chimney pot. Jones said it
wanted attending to. I said:
“Yes, but to attend to it properly we ought to sit up with it all night,
and if the Great Bear thinks that I am going to sit by his bed-side and
give him a spoonful of barley-water every ten minutes, he will find
himself much mistaken.” [1892.]