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"Ungry" is worse than "nungry"; you mustn't get into the way of dropping your "h's," whatever you do. That matters more than baby talking; it's vulgar. 'It's very unkind of you to call me vulgar, said Eugene, in a very plaintive voice, 'and I'll tell you what, Jass, I'm getting so fir wursty, I mean, that I just can't go all the way back wifout a drink.
About amidships of the sou'western quarter of it you'll see a place where the Pacific Ocean is all broke out with the measles. Yes; well, one of them measle spots is Hello Island. "'Course that ain't the real name of it. The real one is spelt with four o's, three a's, five i's, and a peck measure of h's and x's hove in to fill up. It looks like a plate of hash and that's the way it's pronounced.
I was in the kitchen one morning fetching sand for Tweetums's cage and he came in, and cook asked how was his papa, and he said, "Finely better, I thank ye, mum." I think cook said he was a Hirish boy, Bridget hurried on in her excitement and when she was excited I am afraid her 'h's' were apt to suffer Mrs. Vane gasped! 'I am so glad I thought of him.
"They're hateful, and common, and hateful, they are, and I'm not going any more. Mr. Braithwaite drops his 'h's', an' Mr. Winterbottom says 'You was'." "And is that why you won't go any more?" smiled Mrs. Morel. The boy was silent for some time. His face was pale, his eyes dark and furious. His mother moved about at her work, taking no notice of him.
His nerves and facial muscles had been guilty of an unpardonable lapse into snobbishness and toward a man, too, who had been capable of behaviour more distinguished in its courtesy and generosity than any he had encountered in all the "upper circles" put together. He recalled all at once, moreover, that Thorpe's "h's" were perfect aud, for some occult reason, this completed his confusion.
And ten minutes later, working like beavers, they had transferred to the barn the entire office battery of twenty cells. In nervous haste Jack connected the cells in series, then to the wire. Instantly the instrument closed with a solid click. "Hurrah! We win! We win!" cried West, and Jack, springing to the key, whirled off a succession of H's. "H, H, H, ON! Rush! "I, I, H! Where have you been?
He reminded one, perforce, of the rough old proverb; "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Still, Mr. Ascott was not a bad man, though something deeper than his glorious indifference to grammar, and his dropped h's which, to steal some one's joke, might have been swept up in bushels from Miss Leaf's parlor made it impossible for him ever to be, by any culture whatever, a gentleman.
Yet he spoke English with as good an accent as ever one could hear in the mouth of an Englishman; and, indeed, I pay Salamon Sweers no compliment by saying this, for he employed his h's correctly, and the grammar of his sentences was fairly good, albeit salt: and how many Englishmen are there who correctly employ the letter h, and whose grammar is fairly good, salt or no salt?
They don't wait to cool hoff before they drink fer fear they git foundered, as if they was 'osses, like you fellers up on the west side line there." Ben threw his h's recklessly about. "You hain't no binders, you hain't. Yeh never seed any." At this moment "King" Morrison himself entered the blacksmith shop. "Hello, Ben! What's eatin' you?" he exclaimed. Ben grew suddenly quiet.
He was an Englishman all right a cut below middle class; you could tell that by the way he clipped his initial h's off and on. I tried the ice at first it's always best when you don't know the exact thickness of your frozen water. The way I tried it was to toss a flower or two at Maisie Hartopp and her "Jo-Jo" song.
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