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But, any ways, there it was, all right." "Hall right, indeed! I do believe you'd be satisfied to go on getting a few dribblets now and then like that. And then if anything 'appened to you, why I might go fish." "How, Aby, look here " "It's hall very well, governor; but I'll tell you what.
"Summer-time it was, and I likes to take my little siesta after lunch just like the Dons theirselves, y' know and I'm 'aving me siesta next day after lunch when something woke me up. There's a shelf of books on the wall o' my room chart-books and the like and when all at once I see them pilin' down on top of me I say to myself: 'Somethin's 'appened. And so it 'ad.
Fust of all he found fault with the chap 'e was playing with, and then he turned on the cook. "It's a pity you didn't see that in a dream," he ses, tryin' to sneer, on'y the sticking-plaster was too strong for 'im. "But I did see it," ses the cook, drawin' 'imself up. "Wot?" ses Ted, starting. "I dreamt it night afore last, just exactly as it 'appened," ses the cook, in a offhand way.
Fr'ydon went art early this mornin', because she 'appened to speak to me in passin', an' she said she was goin' to see 'er mother, "Oh, are yer?" I says. "An' I 'ope you'll find 'er well," I says. I passed on indoors and upstairs, thinking dizzily about Cockney dialect I had the worst kind of dyspeptic headache and feeling rather glad my wife was away.
Mrs Partridge looked on with a choking sensation in her throat, desiring nothing for herself, but angry with Fortune for showering her gifts on others. Then she stepped up briskly, and cried out: "I 'eard all about yer luck, an' I sez to myself, 'it couldn't 'ave 'appened to a more deservin' young feller. You'll ride in yer carriage yet, mark my words."
He stood there for a moment smiling at us foolish-like, and then 'e let go o' the beer-injin, wot 'e was 'olding in 'is left hand, and sat down heavy on the bar floor. We both put our 'eads over the counter to see wot had 'appened to 'im, and 'e started making the most 'orrible noise I 'ave ever heard in my life. I wonder it didn't bring the fire-injins.
"And the last time was this day twelve months, sir, because why? because this day twelve months 'appened to be Miss Priscilla's birthday, consequently to-day is her birthday, likewise, wherefore the muffins, and wherefore the shrimps, sir, for they was this day to have once more graced our board, Mr. Bellew."
"You'd better get 'old of Bob afore 'e finds it out, Dicky," ses Bill Chambers. Dicky Weed didn't answer 'im; he was already running along to Bob Pretty's as fast as 'is legs would take 'im, with most of us follering behind to see wot 'appened. The door was fastened when we got to it, but Dicky Weed banged away at it as 'ard as he could bang, and at last the bedroom winder went up and Mrs.
Say wot you like, a man's best friend is 'imself. There's nobody else'll do as much for 'im, or let 'im off easier when he makes a mistake. If I felt a bit lonely I used to open the wicket in the gate and sit there watching the road, and p'r'aps pass a word or two with the policeman. Then something 'appened one night that made me take quite a dislike to it for a time.
I felt a little bit damp and chilly, but beer is like sea-water you don't catch cold through it and I sat down agin to wait for George Tebb. He came in smiling and out 'o breath in about ten minutes' time, with the key in 'is 'and, and as soon as I told 'im wot had 'appened to me with the beer he turned to the landlord and ordered me six o' rum 'ot at once.
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