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He was surprised to find that Bob hadn't 'eard anything of the gold watch 'e was offering, but Bob said he was a busy, 'ard-working man and didn't 'ave no time to go to hear speeches or listen to tittle-tattle. "'When I've done my day's work, he ses, 'I can always find a job in the garden, and arter that I go in and 'elp my missis put the children to bed.
"I like a joke as well as anybody, but it ain't fair to try and make fun of a pore, 'ard-working man like that." I never see a man so astonished in my life as Bob Pretty was, when 'e found out it was really true. He seemed fair 'mazed-like, and stood there scratching his 'ead, as if he didn't know where 'e was.
"Ah," continued the good lady, "it's surprising 'ow contented they can be with a little, some of 'em. Give 'em a 'ard-working woman to look after them, and a day out once a week with a procession of the unemployed, they don't ask for nothing more. There's that beauty my poor sister Jane was fool enough to marry.
He was surprised to find that Bob hadn't 'eard anything of the gold watch 'e was offering, but Bob said he was a busy, 'ard-working man and didn't 'ave no time to go to hear speeches or listen to tittle- tattle. "'When I've done my day's work, he ses, 'I can always find a job in the garden, and arter that I go in and 'elp my missis put the children to bed.
"Ain't you got any sense?" "Well, wot are you going to do?" ses the cabman, picking 'is teeth with a bit o' straw. "Wot would you do if you was me?" ses Sam, calming down a bit and trying to speak civil. "Well, if I was you," said the cabman, speaking very slow, "I should be more perlite to begin with; you accused me just now me, a 'ard-working man o' kidnapping you."
"Look here," ses Bob, handing it back, "I've 'ad enough o' your insults; I don't know where your cat is." "I mean for trying to find it, Bob," ses George Barstow. "Oh, well, I don't mind that," ses Bob, taking it. "I'm a 'ard-working man, and I've got to be paid for my time; it's on'y fair to my wife and children. I'll start now."
"I like a joke as well as anybody, but it ain't fair to try and make fun of a pore, 'ard-working man like that." I never see a man so astonished in my life as Bob Pretty was, when 'e found out it was really true. He seemed fair 'mazed-like, and stood there scratching his 'ead, as if he didn't know where 'e was.
"What I mean to say is," he said at length, in a trembling voice "what I mean to say is, without no round-aboutedness, will you lend a 'ard-working man, what's going to be your future father-in-law, a couple o' pounds?" Mr. Tasker laughed. It was not a loud laugh, nor yet a musical one. It was merely a laugh designed to convey to the incensed Mr.
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