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Updated: April 9, 2025

Takes me 'ands so, sir, as I sits in the rumble at the gate, and puts 'em downd so, sir, and sez, 'Put 'em in your pocket, young man, or is it a road agint you expects to see, that you 'olds hup your 'ands, hand crosses 'em like to that, sez he. ''Old 'ard, sez he, 'on the short curves, or you'll bust your precious crust, sez he. And hasks for you, sir. This way, sir." They entered the lodge.

Bret Harte - Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories