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Gazing at her for a moment, as she sat whining, with a rude compassion in his eye, and slowly munching his toast, which he had now buttered and placed in a delf plate on the hob, this person thus soothingly began: "Ah, Dame Lobkins, if so be as 'ow little Paul vas a vith you, it would be a gallows comfort to you in your latter hend!"
"Wot a werry hactive mind!" cried Runty admiringly. "If you vos to guess again you'd hit the game itself an' save us playin' it." "No, you'd better lead off." "Vell, then, clubs is trumps, an' we have got a big von vith a knot on the hend for Gran'mother Cruncher see?" Mr. Scollop smiled thoughtfully and said he saw. "I see a long ways," he added.
Beg your parding, sir," she added, to the seaman, "the boy 'an't got no sense, besides bein' wicked and naughty 'e ain't 'ad no train', sir, that's w'ere it is, all along of my 'avin' too much to do, an' a large family, sir, with no 'usband to speak of; right up the stair, sir, to the top, and along the passage-door straight before you at the hend of it. Mind the step, sir, w'en you gits up.
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