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Updated: May 28, 2025
"The on'y thing I can see," says the boy, one day, "is for Bill to 'ave a touch of sunstroke as 'e's leaving the wheel one day, tumble 'ead-first down the companion-way, and injure 'isself so severely that 'e can't be moved. Then they'll put 'im in a cabin down aft, and p'raps I'll 'ave to go and nurse 'im. Anyway, he'll be down there." "It's a very good idea, Bill," I says.
Wigglesworth was warming to his subject, but the old lady standing on her doorstep fixed her keen blue eyes upon him and ruthlessly swept away all argumentation on the matter. "If it is a matter consistent with the Lord's Day, come in; if not, stay oot." "Oh! Yes, thank you. Per'raps 'e's shavin' 'isself, eh?" Mr. Wigglesworth indulged in a nervous giggle. "Shavin' himsel!" exclaimed Mrs. McNish.
'I've 'ad me eye on 'im meself for some time, replied Nimrod in the same tone. 'Anybody would think the work was goin' to be sent to a Exhibition, the way 'e messes about with it, rubbing it with glasspaper and stopping up every little crack! I can't understand where 'e gets all the glasspaper FROM. ''E brings it 'isself! said Crass hoarsely.
"Put 'isself down as Quaker." "Lummy that's me next time I 'list Quaker Oats!" By this time I had been promoted to the rank of corporal.
'E'll just borrer the hand-barrer from the livery in the mews, sir, and wheel it round 'isself, in 'arf an hour, and make nothink of it. Just you give me the ticket, and set you right down there, and I'll make you and the lady a cup of tea at once, and John'll bring round the luggage by the time you've got your things off. Ernest looked at Edie, and Edie looked at Ernest.
"That was when 'e wanted for to wash 'isself in the Fort Ditch," Ortheris explained. "Said there was too much beer in the Barrack water-butts for a God-fearing man. You was lucky in gettin' orf with wot you did, Mulvaney." "Say you so? Now I'm pershuaded I was cruel hard trated, seein' fwhat I've done for the likes av him in the days whin my eyes were wider opin than they are now.
'E'd known 'em both was a bit sweet on 'er 'isself." The youth laughed discordantly. "Ho! Ho! She's that sort, is she?" But the other spoke up at once with a touch of sharpness in his voice. "She's a good sort to them as be'aves themselves, my lad. She give me a good present. Got me a good, new soft place, too, that's where I'm going to-morrer.
Along comes another cove a strange cove a cove wi' nice white 'ands an' soft, takin' ways 'e talks wi' 'er walks wi' 'er smiles at 'er an' pore Jarge ain't nowheeres pore Jarge's cake is dough ah! an' doughy dough at that!" "How do you come to know all this?" "'Ow should I come to know it but from the man 'isself? 'Ah!
'Then, sez 'e quick-like, 'w'at makes 'em all shout "Toes?" W'y don't the brain 'ear "Hankle" or "'Eel"? Then the old doctor 'e did git mad an' 'e did swear at father most orful. But father, 'e knows 'ow to conduct 'isself, an' sez 'e quite dignified, 'I 'ope as 'ow I know 'ow to treat a gentleman. This pulls the old doctor up an' 'e sez, 'I beg yer pardon, Mr. Fallows, sez 'e.
"Bob Grand 'as 'eard that Brad's out and that he's been 'anging around his 'otel, nasty-like. Who should come to my 'ouse in a cab at nine o'clock to-night but Bob Grand 'isself. He finds me alone, Ruby being off with 'er young man. When I sees who is coming up my steps, I almost keels over. The first words he says took my breath away.
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