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It was about eight years ago, and a few fellows were at a smoker given to some Tommies returning from India, when a bottle-nosed individual, talking about a long march his battalion had made up the Himalayas, in excellent descriptive exclaimed, "'Twasn't a 'ill, 'twasn't a graydyent, 'twas a blooming precipice, guvnor."
You tell one on 'em that Billy the Tanner's on the rampage, and you'll see 'em 'op it. Cheero, guvnor and don't you get curious about Billy. It ain't 'ealthy." The swing-door was suddenly opened. A touslehaired urchin shoved his face in. "Billy the Tanner's coming!" he shouted. "Cave, all! He's been 'avin' a rare to-do in Smith's Court." Then a curious thing happened.
"Ay, ay, ay, ay!" came in chorus. "But I don't hear the young guvnor." There was silence. "Where's Mr Rodd?" A moment's pause, and then "Mr Rodd! Ahoy!" "Here, Joe, here!" came in half-suffocated tones. "Wheer, my lad?" cried the man excitedly. "Here! Here! Help!" "But where's yer here, lad? I can't see you. Can any of you? Oh, look alive, some on you!
"It went down the river to fetch him. The guvnor didn't want to give him a special at this time of night, but he just handed him a note, and we made things hum up here. He was on his way in half an hour. We have had to upset the whole of the night traffic to let him through without a stop." Such a client was, at any rate, worth meeting.
"Yus," chimed in Bill. "If ye'd take the 'uff if so be as we wos to " "Dry up, you, Bill," said Jemmy. "It's just this 'ere, guvnor.
"Could you find your way to the house again?" suggested Jimmy, as Botting took off his cap and rubbed his crown. "Like a shot, guvnor." "Jump up, then," said Jimmy. "The moment I hear that the young lady has been at the house you shall have the fiver and a good tip beyond your fare."
He meditated gloomily upon his future and a colder chill invaded Polly's mind. "Likely to get another crib, ain't I with assaulted the guvnor on my reference. I suppose, though, he won't give me refs. Hard enough to get a crib at the best of times," said Parsons. "You ought to go round with a show, O' Man," said Mr. Polly. Things were not so dreadful in the police court as Mr. Polly had expected.
From a pocket of his pea-jacket he drew a long bodkin, and taking up one of the largest balls he thrust the bodkin in and then withdrew it, the steel stained a coffee color. Sin Sin Wa smelled and tasted the substance adhering to the bodkin, weighed the ball reflectively in his yellow palm, and then set it aside. He took up a second, whereupon: "'Alf a mo', guvnor!" cried the seaman furiously.
"Well, you see, guvnor, I can't call to mind the address," said Joseph. "It wasn't a railway station!" "No," was the answer. "I'll tell you where it was." "Where?" demanded Jimmy. "Blackheath," said Dotting. "'Cabman, she says, 'drive to the Marble Arch. But when we got there she tells me to go over Westminster Bridge to Blackheath.
"I say, you're a nice chap!" he grumbled, cutting himself short with a staccato that was not in the music. "What have I done?" asked Raphael. "Done? You've got me into a nice mess. The guvnor the new guvnor, the old guvnor, it seems called the other day to fix things with me and Pinchas. He asked me if I was satisfied to go on at the same screw. I said he might make it two pound ten.
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