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Thought I was in old Wipers, I did, and see one of them blessed cru-crushifixes!" The other, rather less away, pulled at his arm. "So yer did, ole pal," he said. "It's there now. This 'ere's some Cartholic place or other. Come hon." "Strike me dead, so it is, Joe, large as life! Christ! oo'd 'ave thought it? A bloody cru-cru-chifix! Wat's old England comin' to, Joe?"
"He toppled over," Bruno repeated, very gravely, "and if oo ever saw a caterpillar topple over, oo'd know it's a welly serious thing, and not sit grinning like that and I sha'n't tell oo no more!" "Indeed and indeed, Bruno, I didn't mean to grin. See, I'm quite grave again now." But Bruno only folded his arms, and said "Don't tell me. I see a little twinkle in one of oor eyes just like the moon."
'Pay me now, she'd say, 'or settle later. I know you won't let me suffer. Send the money from home if you like, Why, gentlemen all, I tell you I've seen that lady take her own gold watch an' chain off her neck in the bar an' pass it to a bosun 'oo'd come ashore without 'is ticker an' 'ad to catch the last boat.
She upped an' she oped it, and there were the little oo'd thing, with five skeins of flax on his arm. "Here te be," says he, an' he gonned it to her. "Now, what's my name?" says he. "What, is that Bill?" says she. "Noo, that ain't," says he. An' he twirled his tail. "Is that Ned?" says she. "Noo, that ain't," says he. An' he twirled his tail. "Well, is that Mark?" says she.
"It's called jewellery," says 'e, "'cos it's mostly the Jews as sell it." Now, oo'd a thought o' that? But you see it's right as soon as you're towld, eh? Now ain't it right, Godwin? 'No doubt, was the dry answer. 'It never struck me, murmured Mrs. Peak, who took her son's assent seriously, and felt that it was impossible to preserve an obstinate silence.
He told us he had an uncle 'oo'd give us land to farm. 'E said he was born at the back o' Vancouver Island, and all the time the beggar was a balmy Barnado Orphan!" "But we believed him," said Pyecroft. "I did you did Paterson did an' 'oo was the Marine that married the cocoanut-woman afterwards him with the mouth?" "Oh, Jones, Spit-Kid Jones. I 'aven't thought of 'im in years," said Pritchard.
Now I'll tell oo what I'll do, as oo're so fond of Fairies. I'll get oo an invitation to the Fairy-King's dinner-party. I know one of the head-waiters." I couldn't help laughing at this idea. "Do the waiters invite the guests?" I asked. "Oh, not to sit down!" Bruno said. "But to wait at table. Oo'd like that, wouldn't oo? To hand about plates, and so on."
"I'll tell you what I'll do," Bruno said in a half-whisper, as we worked. "Oo like Fairies, don't oo?" "Yes," I said: "of course I do, or I shouldn't have come here. I should have gone to some place where there are no Fairies." Bruno laughed contemptuously. "Why, oo might as well say oo'd go to some place where there wasn't any air supposing oo didn't like air!"
An' then he went out an' locked the door. He'd hardly goon, when there was a knockin' agin the winder. She upped and she oped it, and there sure enough was the little oo'd thing a settin' on the ledge. "Where's the flax?" says he. "Here te be," says she. And she gonned it to him. Well, come the evenin', a knockin' come agin to the winder.
I suppose oo call it cruel and dangerous 'cause, if oo wented too far and tumbleded in, oo'd get drownded." But I couldn't help thinking that Bruno's explanation did very well for either word. "Oh!" said Bruno, opening his eyes very wide, but without trying to repeat the word. "Come! Try and pronounce it, Bruno!" I said, cheerfully. "Re-venge, re-venge."
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