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Bob Pretty said he was a Briton, and arter a little more talk Peter asked 'im to go and 'ave a pint with 'im to show that there was no ill-feeling. They came into this 'ere Cauliflower public-'ouse like brothers, and in less than ten minutes everybody was making as much fuss o' Bob Pretty as if 'e'd been the best man in Claybury.

'Where are you goin' now? asked Liza, looking at the slop-basin she was carrying. 'I was just goin' dahn into the road ter get some ice-cream for dinner. Father 'ad a bit of luck last night, 'e says, and 'e'd stand the lot of us ice-cream for dinner ter-day. 'I'll come with yer if yer like. 'Come on! And, already friends, they walked arm-in-arm to the Westminster Bridge Road.

"Why, no, sir; 'e 'adn't got his shoes on, sir, last night " "Oh, bother his shoes!" said Charley, in a voice of great disappointment. "Why didn't you bring him up without shoes, man, eh?" "Well, sir, the miller said 'e'd get 'em put on early this mornin', an' I 'xpect 'e'll be 'ere in 'alf a hour at farthest, sir."

And then to expect him to notice and praise you for every little job you do!" But Jim was stubborn. 'E didn't want to deny anything. But 'e'd rather go. An' this day a week if it suited her. "It's really dreadful how uppish the lower classes get as soon as they have a little money in their pocket," she said to herself, as she walked the shadeless, sandy road.

Sally and her friend came up; attired in his Sunday best, he was a fit match for his lady-love he wore a shirt and collar, unusual luxuries and be carried under his arm a concertina to make things merry on the way. 'Ain't you goin', Liza? he asked in surprise at seeing her without a hat and with her apron on. 'Na, said Sally, 'ain't she a soft? Tom said 'e'd tike 'er, an' she wouldn't.

"It might be," old Beale allowed. "I seen your son in London. 'E told me about yer garden." "I should a thought 'e'd a-forgot the garden same as 'e's forgot me," said the old man. "'E ain't forgot you, not 'e," said Dickie; "'e's come to see you, an 'e's waiting outside now to know if you'd like to see 'im."

He asked Isaac whether 'e thought 'im and Ginger Dick was a couple o' children, and 'e said if 'e didn't give 'em all their money right away 'e'd give 'im in charge to the first policeman they met. "I'm afraid you didn't intend for to go and see your mother, Peter," ses the old man. "Look 'ere," ses Peter, "are you going to give us that money?"

He ses the quantities of stuff as 'e's took there and seen other tradesmen take was something chronic. Tons of it! 'What was the parson's name? asked Harlow. 'Belcher. You must 'ave noticed 'im about the town. A very fat chap, replied Philpot. 'I'm sorry you wasn't 'ere on Saturday to see the corfin plate. Frank called me in to see the wordin' when 'e'd finished it. It had on: "Jonydab Belcher.

Teddy Silk on a pound or thereabouts a week and Teddy Silk with ten thousand pounds 'ud be two different people. Besides that 'e'd think she was marrying 'im for 'is money." "If 'e thought that," said Mrs. Kybird, firmly, "I'd never forgive 'im." "My advice to you," said Nathan Smith, shaking his forefinger impressively, "is to get 'em married on the quiet and as soon as possible.

"Oh," I says, "that's news to me, I didn't know 'e'd gone, nor see him neither " which I didn't. So, up I comes again, and, sure enough, the door was open, and it seems to me that the room was empty, till I come upon this pore young man what was lying be'ind the bed, There was a growl from the doctor. 'If you'd had any sense, and sent for me at once, he might have been alive at this moment.