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Saying which, Tim went off to wring out his dripping garments, after which the fishing was resumed. "Wot a remarkable difference," said Bobby, breaking a rather long silence of expectancy, as he glanced round on the splendid landscape which was all aglow with the descending sun, "'tween these 'ere diggin's an' Commercial Road, or George Yard, or Ratcliff 'Ighway. Ain't it, Tim?"
Your uneducated masses speak English, you will not deny that; our uneducated masses speak American it won't be fair for you to deny that, for you can see, yourself, that when your stable-boy says, 'It isn't the 'unting that 'urts the 'orse, but the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard 'ighway, and our stable-boy makes the same remark without suffocating a single h, these two people are manifestly talking two different languages.
'Ah! it's me, and me's the first person singular, nominative case, agreeing with the verb "it's", and governed by Squeers understood, as a acorn, a hour; but when the h is sounded, the a only is to be used, as a and, a art, a ighway, replied Mr Squeers, quoting at random from the grammar. 'At least, if it isn't, you don't know any better, and if it is, I've done it accidentally.
An' many's the chap as 'as come leerin' after 'er as I've sent away with a flea in 'is ear. Cuss 'em all; they's all bad alike about purty gals, men is. She's never comed to no wrong through me. Didn't I ammost kill a real sailor capting when I used to live in the East End 'cause he tried to meddle with 'er? An' worn't that the reason why I left my 'um close to Radcliffe 'Ighway an' comed 'ere?
"There's no need to go into all that again, young feller. You accepted 'im freely and without prejudice when the fair exchange was suggested, so for all practical intents and purposes he is your Reggie Byng. I 'ope you're going to send him a wedding-present." "Well, you ain't any better off than me, with all your 'ighway robbery!" "My what!" "You 'eard what I said."
I inwents the noos as I goes along; an you should see that old lady's face, an' the way 'er eyes opens we'n I'm a tapin' off the murders an' the 'ighway robberies, an' the burglaries an' the fires at 'ome, an' the wars an' earthquakes an' other scrimmages abroad. It do cheer 'er up most wonderful. Of course, I stick in any hodd bits o' real noos I 'appens to git hold of, but I ain't partickler."
This ain't a public 'ighway, I ses; 'it's a wharf. "'Bill, he ses, 'you're a genius. "'If Miss Lamb comes 'ere asking arter you, I ses, 'I shall say you've gone out for the evening. "'Wot about her letter? he ses. "'You didn't 'ave it, I ses, winking at 'im. "'And suppose she waits about outside for me, and Mrs. Plimmer wants me to take 'er out? he ses, shivering.
"I'm sorry to say, marm, that you're not the on'y indiwidooal as 'olds that opinion." "What do you mean by your conduct, boy?" "I mean, marm, that I'm wery 'ard up. Uncommon 'ard up; that I've tried to git vork an' can't git it, so that I'm redooced to beggary. But, I ain't a 'ighway robber, marm, by no means, an' don't want to frighten you hout o' your money if you ain't willin' to give it."
"I've told you I can purchase none of your wares, so pray have the goodness to cease your importunities and go." "Go?" said the Peddler. "An' why should I go? I ain't a-trespassin' on your private property, am I? No, because 'tis a public 'ighway. Very good! An' England's a free country, ain't it? It is! Very good again!
This ain't a public 'ighway, I ses; 'it's a wharf. "'Bill, he ses, 'you're a genius. "'If Miss Lamb comes 'ere asking arter you, I ses, 'I shall say you've gone out for the evening. "'Wot about her letter? he ses. "'You didn't 'ave it, I ses, winking at 'im. "'And suppose she waits about outside for me, and Mrs. Plimmer wants me to take 'er out? he ses, shivering.
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