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Updated: June 19, 2025
Her face lit up with sudden interest as she saw me: 'Oo! she cried with spirit, 'er you the genelmun has orduder bawth? Again I pleaded guilty, and with a broad, reassuring smile, as of one who should say: 'Bless you, we've had visitors just as mad as you before this, and never attempted to lasso or otherwise constrain them.
I serpose you ain't seed the genelmun as orduder bawth anywhere abart, 'ave yer? Fearful lest further delay should lead to the bricking up of the bathroom, or to a crier being sent round the town for 'the genelmun, etc., I hastened out almost into the arms of the retainer, and forcibly checked him, as he began on an interrogative note to cheep out: 'You the genelmun as orduder
'The very thing, I said; conversation in such a place, and in such circumstances, proving quite impossible for me. By an odd chance I recalled my first experiences upon arrival at this same mean and dolorous station, more than twenty years previously. 'We will go to the house in which the "genelmun orduder bawth," I said, and led Heron across into the Blue Boar.
Coming from a country where, even in the poorest workman's house, the bathroom at all events is always in commission, I was greatly struck by this incident; more especially when, an hour later, I heard the chambermaid cry out over the banisters: 'Mibel! The genelmun as orduder bawth sez 'e'll 'ave a chop wiv 'is tea!
While I pondered, one hand on the counter, the still smiling barmaid opened conversation brightly: 'Er you the genelmun what's orduder bawth? she asked engagingly. I began to feel that there must be some kind of a special London joke about this formula. Perhaps it is a phrase in the current comic opera, I thought. A pity that ignorance should prevent my capping it!
Here I smoked half a pipe, and would have rested, but that I felt too dirty. Presently Boots came in, elderly and sad but furtively bird-like, both in the way he held his head on one side and in the jerky quickness of his movements: 'You the genelmun as orduder bawth? he asked anxiously. I admitted it, and he gave a long sigh of relief. 'Oo! All right, he said, almost gladly.
I cherish the thought that I have become something of a tradition at the Blue Boar, where I have reason to think I am probably remembered to-day by a now aged Boots and others many, many others as 'The genelmun as orduder bawth. On rising after my first insomnious night there, I went prowling all about the house in search of the bathroom.
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