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"Look here!" I ses, "you clear off. All of you. 'Ow dare you come on to my wharf? If you aren't gone in two minutes I'll give you all in charge." "Who to?" ses one of the draymen, sticking his face into mine. "You go 'ome to your wife and kids. Go on now, afore I put up my 'ands to you." "That's the way to talk to 'im," ses the pot-man, nodding at 'em.
"Look here!" I ses, "you clear off. All of you. 'Ow dare you come on to my wharf? If you aren't gone in two minutes I'll give you all in charge." "Who to?" ses one of the draymen, sticking his face into mine. "You go 'ome to your wife and kids. Go on now, afore I put up my 'ands to you." "That's the way to talk to 'im," ses the pot-man, nodding at 'em.
I went cold all over, and then when I thought that the pot-man was most likely encouraging 'er to do it I began to boil. "Somebody at the gate," ses the skipper. "Aye, aye," I ses. "I know all about it." I went on talking until at last the skipper asked me whether he was wandering in 'is mind, or whether I was.
Vat shall we do wis him? Ant Papa sayt, 'Me ton't know. Zen Mamma sayt, 'Let us give him to town at Mister Schultzen's, and he may pea Schumacher, ant my Vater sayt, 'Goot! Six year ant seven mons livet I in town wis ze Mister Shoemaker, ant he loaft me. He sayt, 'Karl are one goot vorkman, ant shall soon become my Geselle. Pot-man makes ze proposition, ant Got ze deposition.
I went cold all over, and then when I thought that the pot-man was most likely encouraging 'er to do it I began to boil. "Somebody at the gate," ses the skipper. "Aye, aye," I ses. "I know all about it." I went on talking until at last the skipper asked me whether he was wandering in 'is mind, or whether I was.
"Wot is it?" ses the skipper, shutting the wicket behind 'em. "A beanfeast?" "This lady wants her 'usband," ses the pot-man, pointing at me. "He run away from her nine years ago, and now he says he 'as never seen 'er before. He ought to be 'ung." "Bill," ses the skipper, shaking his silly 'ead at me. "I can 'ardly believe it." "It's all a pack o' silly lies," I ses, firing up.
The discriminating visitor will decidedly prefer to receive his sandwich and glass of bitter at the hands of a pretty barmaid rather than from an oleaginous pot-man in his shirt-sleeves; and the sherry-cobbler acquires a racier flavour from the arch looks of the Hebe who dispenses it.
"Wot is it?" ses the skipper, shutting the wicket behind 'em. "A beanfeast?" "This lady wants her 'usband," ses the pot-man, pointing at me. "He run away from her nine years ago, and now he says he 'as never seen 'er before. He ought to be 'ung." "Bill," ses the skipper, shaking his silly 'ead at me. "I can 'ardly believe it." "It's all a pack o' silly lies," I ses, firing up.
Pratt paused a moment, and gave her listeners a knowing look, as if she was now about to narrate the most important part of her story. "But what you mayn't be aware of, Mr. Polke," she continued, "is that our telephone box, which has glass panels in its upper parts, has at this present time one of these panels broken our pot-man did it, carrying a plank through the hall.
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