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When the dog got sick o' sitting in a pub 'e made such a noise they 'ad to take 'im out; and when 'e got tired o' walking about he sat down on the pavement and they 'ad to drag 'im along to the nearest pub agin. At five o'clock in the arternoon Ginger Dick was talking about two-penn'orth o' rat-poison. "Wot are we to do with 'im till twelve o'clock to-night?" ses Peter.
"It seems rum," said Bill, wiping his lips with the back of his hand, after a mighty pull at the pint tankard "it seems rum that you should be standing me drinks at a swell place like this. It seems only yesterday that you was a two-penn'orth of nothing jogging along o' me in the old 'bus." "I've moved a bit since then, haven't I?" said Paul. "You have, sonny," said Barney Bill.
"Not two-penn'orth of choice between them and a parcel of puppies," he said; "except that some of them are conscious that there is a man looking at them, although he is only a blackguard laborer. They remind me of Henrietta in a hundred ways. Would I laugh, now, if the whole sheet of ice were to burst into little bits under them?"
"Truth is," said the Indiarubber Man, "your nerves are shattered. Pills, here's a job for you. Give the lads two-penn'orth of bromide and stop their wine and extras.
As a student of locomotion" he turned and stared down upon Tilda "I'd like you to tell me how you did it." "Well," she answered, "I felt a bit nervous at startin'. So I walked straight in an' ordered two-penn'orth o' beer an' then it all came out." "Was that so?" He perpended this, and went on, "I remember reading somewhere in Ruskin that the more a man can do his job the more he can't say how.
When the dog got sick o' sitting in a pub 'e made such a noise they 'ad to take 'im out; and when 'e got tired o' walking about he sat down on the pavement and they 'ad to drag 'im along to the nearest pub agin. At five o'clock in the arternoon Ginger Dick was talking about two-penn'orth o' rat-poison. "Wot are we to do with 'im till twelve o'clock to-night?" ses Peter.
Listening to the Reader, we were there, in the coffee-room of the Saracen's Head the rascal Squeers in the full enjoyment of his repast of hot toast and cold round of beef, the while five little boys sat opposite hungrily and thirstily expectant of their share in a miserable meal of two-penn'orth of milk and thick bread and butter for three.
Very poor stuff it was, but it served to make time pass; and every now and then Sally arrived in the middle with a smoking tin of potatoes, which was cleared off in a few seconds, each boy as he seized his lot running off to the house with "Put me down two-penn'orth, Sally;" "Put down three-penn'orth between me and Davis," etc.
"Take two-penn'orth o' nuts with you for the monkeys, and some stale buns for for for animals as likes 'em. Give 'er a ride on the elephant and a ride on the camel." "Anything else?" inquired Mr. Teak disagreeably. "Any more ways you can think of for me to spend my money?" "You do as I tell you," said his friend. "I've got an idea now where it is.
I mean to say, when you leave a girl and a man, each of whom has admitted in set terms that she and he loves him and her, in close juxtaposition in the twilight, there doesn't seem much more to do but start pricing fish slices. Something attempted, something done, seemed to me to have earned two-penn'orth of wassail in the smoking-room. I proceeded thither.
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