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Gentleman riding a 'oss in one o' these 'ere noo buckled 'ats. Gentleman shaking 'ands with ditto observe the cock o' that little finger, will ye! Gentleman eating ruffles no, truffles, which is a vegetable, as all pigs is uncommon partial to. Gentleman proposing lady's 'ealth in a frilled shirt an' a pair o' skin-tights. Gentleman making a bow."
'As if it warn't bad enough for a bob a- hour, for a man to be mixing himself up with that there jolly old furniter that one 'ud think the public know'd the wery nails in by this time or to be putting on greasy old 'ats and cloaks, and playing tambourines in the Bay o' Naples, with Wesuvius a smokin' according to pattern in the background, and the wines a bearing wonderful in the middle distance or to be unpolitely kicking up his legs among a lot o' gals, with no reason whatever in his mind but to show 'em as if this warn't bad enough, I'm to go and be thrown out of employment too!
First she takes out a sovereign, and then a shilling, and says to me, quite clear, as she dropped 'em into the plate, 'All right, Mr. Church, I'll be even with you yet! And here's another two pounds fifteen. You can tell Charley Shott and Tom Henderson, and all the lot on 'em, as they've paid for their Sunday 'ats.
On the other side of the road we see another motor car and another swell bloke with a round pane of glass in one eye and a overcoat with a big fur collar and cuffs, standing up in the car and addressin' the crowd. This is Mr Mandriver, the Liberal candidate. The crowds of shabby-lookin' chaps standin' round the motor cars wavin' their 'ats and cheerin' is workin' men.
The lawyer received a bundle from his chambers, in which his clerk eased his soul regarding the state of Snooks v. Rodgers, Smith ats Tomkins, &c.
Brunow says, ''Ere she is, 'e says, just like that, sir 'Ere she is, as if they was a-waiting for somebody. In 'arf a minute up drives the Baroness Bonnar in a carriage, with a lady a-sitting beside her. The two gentlemen takes off their 'ats, and they all shakes hands together, and then Mr. Brunow and Mr. Sacovitch gets into the carriage, and they all drives off together."
"Where did you get that thing?" he inquired. "Isn't this place of yours small enough, without lumbering it up with statuary out of the Euston Road?" "I didn't get it there," said Leander. "I I thought it would be 'andy to 'ang the 'ats on." "Dear, dear," said the old gentleman, "why do you people dabble in matters you don't understand? Come here, Tweddle, and let me show you.
Seeing I'd just drawn you in the sweepstike, of course, I listened not 'arf!" George did not follow him here. "The sweepstike? What's a sweepstike?" "Why, a thing you puts names in 'ats and draw 'em and the one that gets the winning name wins the money." "Oh, you mean a sweepstake!" "That's wot I said a sweepstike." George was still puzzled. "But I don't understand.
A last fellow in a red night-cap, swarming out on the bowsprit, plumped into the sea. The Gunner leapt on to the bulwark. "Cleared, be God! alow and aloft!" he roared, swinging his chain-shot about his head. "Ats off all! God save h'our gracious King." A bandaged head poked out of the hatchway. "They're swarmin in through the port-holes!" came a husky scream. Old Ding-dong lifted on his elbows.
Up jumped his ATS driver and said, "Here I am, Sir." :"No, no, not you dear," said the brigadier, "I means the 'at wot I wears on me 'ead." Many years later this story was confirmed, word for word, by an ex-colonel who had also been present.
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