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"How am I to spell it?" said the clerk, without taking his pen out of the ink, as though it would dry in the air. "This ain't school!" said our young friend from Sapps Court, whom you probably remember. Michael had absconded from his home, and sought that of his great-aunt; the only person, said contemporary opinion, that had a hounce of influence with him.
The famous and fab'lous Franko o' Florence, the fire-eatin', flame-swallerin', fat feller as weighs thirty-two stone if a hounce seein's believin' and all for a tanner a tanner! Sixpence an' no more! Come and see Franko the fattest feller o' Florence as will eat fire, devour glass and swaller swords, and all for sixpence for sixpence!
I says to her, says I, 'Sally, says I, 'if you'll give yourself hully and whully to the Lord for one week, I'll give you a hounce of baccy, and she's that wicked, she actilly would not." Is this the sort of thing I have come to hear? I rise up hastily, and take my leave.
'That's just it, says he; 'I've got the time to a second' here he pulls out a big old turnip of a silver watch 'and I'll have him up just ready to be weighed out last. I never was late in my life. 'All right, I said, 'but don't draw it too fine. Have you got your weight all right? 'Right to a hounce, says he, 'nine stun four they've put on him, and him an untried horse.
"It's my belief as 'ow she's bin a waccinated ten times, yer honour." "Why, Simon?" "Why, she's without blood or marrow, she is; and as for flesh, she ain't got none." "Well, what for that?" "And not honly that," he continued, without heeding my question, "she hain't a got a hounce of tender feelin's in her natur. In my opinion, sur, she's a witch, she is, and hev got dealin's with the devil."
Here the practical joker of the crew made himself famous by utterly routing an inquisitive old lady, who asked, "What do you do with your prisoners?" The grizzled old tar dropped his voice to a confidential whisper, and, with a look of the utmost frankness, replied, "We biles 'em, mum. We tried a roast, but there ain't a hounce of meat on one o' them Yankee carkages. Yes, mum, we biles 'em."
But the skipper, red-faced and angry, answered, "W'y, yer so-and-so ijits, that's wot the Lord Mayor of London gives about a guinea a hounce for w'en 'e feeds lords n' dooks. Only the haristocracy at 'ome get a charnce to stick their teeth in such grub as that. An' 'ere are you lot a-growlin' at 'avin' it for a change!"
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