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"We went out arter tea and bought the engagement-ring, and then she got somebody to mind the shop and we went to the Pagoda music-'all." "I 'ope you didn't pay much for the ring, Sam," ses Ginger, who always got very kind-'arted arter two or three glasses o' whisky. "If I'd known you was going to be in such a hurry I might ha' told you before." "We ought to ha' done," ses Peter, shaking his 'ead.
"You'd better explain to the Doctor, Corporal Leash. I'm out of the running when it comes to killing men with concertinas. And you don't play as badly as all that, do you?" "On the contrywise, Sir," explained the comrade Kelly, "plays uncommon well, he does all the tunes of the latest music-'all and patriotic songs."
I just took a peep through the wicket and saw that Joe 'ad taken up my dooty, and then we set off. "I said I wasn't quite sure which one he'd gone to, but we'd try the Pagoda Music-'all fust, and we went there on a bus from Aldgate. It was the fust evening out I 'ad 'ad for years, and I should 'ave enjoyed it if it 'adn't been for Miss Lamb.
Don't seem to care for it now. I was saying so to you on'y last night, wasn't I, Peter?" "You was," ses Peter; "so was I." "Then I've done you good, Ginger," ses Isaac, clapping 'im on the back. "You 'ave," ses Ginger, speaking between his teeth, "and I thank you for it. I don't want drink; but I thought o' going to a music-'all this evening."
As we drove through the village the girl Jenny uttered shrieks of delight at the sight of flowers growing up the cottage walls, and declared they were "just like music-'all without the drink license."
"'She's been to a music-'all with Bill, ses the cook. 'We saw 'em. "'WOT? ses the cap'n, falling back again. 'It can't be! "'It was them, ses my wife. 'A little boy brought me a note telling me. You let me go; it's my husband, and I want to talk to 'im. "'It's all right, I ses, waving my 'and at Miss Lamb, wot was going to speak, and smiling at my missis, wot was trying to get at me.
There ain't a music-'all chep in London wot down't know the 'Orns. Not one!" "Shakespeare didn't know it," John exclaimed. "Well, 'e didn't know everythink did 'e?" the driver retorted. "P'raps the 'Orns wasn't built then. I dessay not. 'E'd 'ave mentioned it if 'e'd 'ave known abaht it. All these actor cheps know it, so of course 'e'd 'a' known abaht it, too. We'll be at the Elephant presently.
And as far as I'm concerned he can take this lady to a music-'all every night of the week if 'e likes. I've done with her. "There was an eggsterrordinary noise from where my missis was standing; like the gurgling water makes sometimes running down the kitchen sink at 'ome, only worse.
She did go part o' the way, and then, when she found that Ted wouldn't send his mate off, she came back and, woman-like, said as 'ow she wasn't going to go 'ome just to please Charlie Brice. She wouldn't speak a word to 'im, and when they all went to the music-'all together she sat with her face turned away from 'im and her elbow sticking in 'is chest.
As we drove through the village the girl Jenny uttered shrieks of delight at the sight of flowers growing up the cottage walls, and declared they were "just like a music-'all without the drink license."
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