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Updated: June 13, 2025
"You 'm right theer, Peter, so theer be so theer be why, I be a old, old man, wi' more years than 'airs on my 'ead, an' yet it seems but yesterday as I were a-holdin' on to my mother's skirt, an' wonderin' 'ow the moon got lighted. Life be very short, Peter, an' while we 'ave it 'tis well to get all the 'appiness out of it we can."
"'Not afore twelve, and p'r'aps a good bit later, he ses, smiling all over with 'appiness. 'But young slab-chest don't know I'm out, and Winnie thinks I'm just going out for 'arf an hour, so it'll be all right. So long. "I watched 'im up the road, and I must say I began to wish I 'adn't taken the job on.
"Your watch!" exclaimed Tim. "Well, not igsackly," laughed the Tramp. "Oh, he didn't mean that," Judy put in quickly. "I was usin' it at the time, any'ow," chuckled their guest, "and wot you're usin' at the time belongs to you. I never knew 'appiness while I kep' it. Watches and clocks only mean 'urry. It's an endless job, tryin' to keep up with 'em.
Well, I went on a-sayin' to myself, 'Ain't I to 'ave not one 'appy day in all my life? An' it come to me all at once, with a flash like, that money was to be 'ad for the trouble o' takin' it money an' 'appiness." The bleared eye rolled with a sort of self-congratulation, and the coins jingled more loudly. "A pound ain't no use; nor yet two pound; nor yet five pound.
Ginger, smiling all over with 'appiness, had got a big cigar on and was pretending to pinch the barmaid's flowers, and Peter and the cabman was talking to some other chaps there. The only change Sam 'ad was when the boy walked the 'orse up and down the road. He sat there for an hour and then 'e sent the boy in agin.
L10,000 is required before Christmas Day. Gifts may be made to any specific section or home, if desired. Can you please send us something to keep the work going? 'Oh, that's part of the great 'appiness an' prosperity wot Owen makes out Free Trade brings, said Crass with a jeering laugh. 'I never said Free Trade brought happiness or prosperity, said Owen.
Belloo mam," Adam concluded, "wi' your kind permission, I'll step into the kitchen, an' drink a glass o' Prue's ale to your 'ealth, and 'appiness. If I stay here any longer I won't say but what I shall burst out a-singing in your very face, mam, for I do be that 'appy-'earted, Lord!"
Generally speaking they found it without straining their eyesight. I remember one time they was home, arter being away pretty near a year, and when they was paid off they felt like walking gold-mines. They went about smiling all over with good-temper and 'appiness, and for the first three days they was like brothers.
Charlie Tagg went to 'im because he was the only man 'e could trust, and for over arf an hour he was telling Jack Bates all 'is troubles, and at last, as a great favour, he let 'im see the Sydney gal's photygraph, and told him that all that pore gal's future 'appiness depended upon 'im.
An', Guv, I only ax because your 'appiness an' 'ers is mine s' 'elp me!" "How if it's the other way about, Old Un? Suppose she avoids me?" "Why lumme, Guv! 'T is a sure sign she needs persoot. Remember this: "'Im as would lovely woman woo 'E lovely woman must persoo, For if 'e don't, 't is plain as plain That feller 'e will woo in vain.
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