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Frosch, that he, Morgan, had "a devil of a blow hup with his own Gov'ner and was goin' to retire from the business haltogether, and that if Frosch wanted a tempory job, he might probbly have it by applying in Bury street." "You are very polite," said the major, "and your recommendation, I am sure, will have every weight." Morgan blushed, he felt his master was "a-chaffin' of him."
"'Arter all this time that's gone by, he says to me, bitter-like, 'to think a man can't come back to 'is native 'ome without being spied on for what ought long ago to be dead and forgot! But you're not trying to lay hands on 'im, to put 'im in the pen, gov'ner?" "I?" A singular glint shot from Steele's gaze. "No, no, my man, I'm not seeking him for that.
Shouldn't 'a' interrupted, Gov'nor; please scuse me, suh; but they boys was so pussistent, and it comed fum the deepo, and I was mos' feared the railways was done gone on a strike, and I thought maybe you'd oughter know, suh Gov'ner."
'Chicken, said Mr Toots, severely, 'you're a perfect Vulture! Your sentiments are atrocious. 'My sentiments is Game and Fancy, Master, returned the Chicken. 'That's wot my sentiments is. I can't abear a meanness. I'm afore the public, I'm to be heerd on at the bar of the Little Helephant, and no Gov'ner o' mine mustn't go and do what's mean.
We ain' gwine ter do no shootin' till we're pestered, an' dey'll be less likely ter pester us ef dey can't git at us widout runnin' some resk. Come along in! Be men! De gov'ner er de President is gwine ter sen' soldiers ter stop dese gwines-on, an' meantime we kin keep dem white devils f'm bu'nin' down our hospittles an' chu'ch-houses.
"Yes," he said, "I bought that jacket, gov'ner, and I don't deny it. There it is at the bottom of my bundle, and I ain't even looked at it since. Nor I ain't goin' to look now. You say there was two suvreigns in the pocket. A gent like you don't want to swindle a common man like me.
Swelp me! gov'ner my lord, I mean. What I meanter say, if anything's 'appened to 'im! One of the best!" The two men went quickly towards the gate. As they passed down the quiet, dusty road Beale spoke again. "I wasn't no good I don't deceive you, guv'ner a no account man I was, swelp me! And the little 'un, 'e tidied me up and told me tales and kep' me straight.
When I went to see the Daibutsu at Kamakura, haying wrapped up myself from head to toe with a blanket, a rikisha man addressed me as "Gov'ner." I have been mistaken on many occasions for as many things, but none so far has counted on me as a probable connoisseur of art. One should know better by my appearance.
"Did he?" "Did he? Yes, he just did; and you mark my words, Peter Cribb, it will not be long before the gov'ner gets rid of him." "Oh yes; it's a very beautiful fish," said the doctor testily; "but make haste in. There, run and get all your wet things off as quickly as you can."
"I leave it to you, Gov'ner," he continued to stammer at length. "S'y you was me and I was Number One w'at would you think?" "Why, quite naturally, that some superior intelligence has latterly been collaborating with Scotland Yard." "Aren't you a bit behindhand in arriving at that conclusion?" the Irishman suggested with an ill-dissembled sneer.
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