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"I should 'ave given 'er fifteen shillings a week," ses Silas. "'Ow much?" ses Bill, nearly putting his 'ead up over the clothes, while 'is wife almost woke up with surprise and anger. "Fifteen shillings," ses Silas, in 'is most awful voice. "You'll save that over the drink." "I I'll go round and see her," ses Bill. "S'he might be one o' these 'ere independent " 277
At least, so he says, but I don't give much for it myself, for if he did 'e never said a word about it to his missis when 'e got 'ome, and it was only after the escape of the wolf was made known, and we had been up all night a-huntin' of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein' anything. My own belief was that the 'armony 'ad got into his 'ead." "Now, Mr.
Frost all night 'cept when it hails, and biling sun all day, and the water stinks fit to knock you down. I got my 'ead chipped like a egg; I've got pneumonia too, an' my guts is all out o' order. Tain't no bloomin' picnic in those parts, I can tell you." "Wot are the niggers like?" demanded a private. "There's some prisoners in that train yonder. Go an' look at 'em.
Don't you understand? 'No, Passon, sez I, 'I can't say as I do! Then he laughed, but sad like an' went away with his 'ead down as he's got it now. Something's wrong with him an' it's all since Miss Vancourt came. She's a real worry to 'im I 'spect, an' it's true enough the place ain't like what it was a month ago. Yet there's no denyin' she's a sweet little lady for all one can say!"
Hike out o' here, and shut you 'ead, hif you know w'at's well for you." "Shut up your own head, you British blowhard," retorted Shorty, "and mind your own business. Wait until you are a little longer in the country be fore you try to run it. And I don't want no more o' your slack. If you don't keep a civil tongue in your head I'll make you."
It's wot it was meant for." Bill shook his 'ead, but when Ginger called 'im disobligin' agin he gave way and he broke the pledge that very evening with a pint o' six 'arf. Ginger was surprised to see the way 'e took his liquor. Arter three or four pints he'd expected to see 'im turn a bit silly, or sing, or do something o' the kind, but Bill kept on as if 'e was drinking water.
Bunnett good-bye becos 'e said he'd got to get back to 'is work, and Mr. Bunnett had 'ardly got 'ome afore Henery Walker turned up full of anxiousness to ask his advice about five little baby kittens wot 'is old cat had found in the wash-place: the night afore. "'Drownd them little innercent things, same as most would do, I can't, he ses, shaking his 'ead; 'but wot to do with 'em I don't know.
"I dropped them down right opposite the 'ead of that nail." Jonah groped again without success. "'Ere, let me try," said Mum, impatiently. She knelt over the hole to get her bearings, and then plunged her arm into the gap. Jonah and Ada, on their knees, watched in silence. At last, with a cry of despair, Mrs Yabsley sat up on the floor. There was no doubt, the treasure was gone!
He came out in such blind haste that he ran his ragged head with great violence against my side, and almost overturned me. "Hallo, youngster!" I exclaimed sternly. "Hallo, oldster!" he replied, in a tone of the most insolent indignation, "wot ever do you mean by runnin' agin my 'ead like that?
"I never asked 'er; I'd take my Davy I didn't," he ses. "Well, you ain't going to marry her, then?" ses Alf, brightening up. His uncle shook his 'ead agin. "She didn't want no asking," he ses, speaking very slow and mournful. "I just 'appened to put my arm round her waist by accident one day and the thing was done." "Accident? How could you do it by accident?" ses Alf, firing up.
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