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Updated: June 15, 2025
The potman was at work in the backyard, Esther was sewing in the parlour. Hearing steps, she went into the bar. Fred looked at her abashed, he was a little perplexed. He said "Is your husband in? I should like to speak to him." "No, my husband is out. I don't expect him back for an hour or so. Can I give him any message?" She was on the point of asking him how he was.
I don't like policemen as a rule; they're too inquisitive, but when the wicket was pushed open and I saw a face with a helmet on it peeping in, I felt quite a liking for 'em. "Wot's up?" ses the policeman, staring 'ard at my little party. They all started telling 'im at once, and I should think if the potman showed him 'is ear once he showed it to 'im twenty times.
And afore she went off she told the potman from the 'Albion, wot was listening, that I was known all over Wapping as the Sleeping Beauty. "She ain't the fust I've 'ad words with, not by a lot. They're all the same; they all start in a nice, kind, soapy sort o' way, and, as soon as they don't get wot they want, fly into a temper and ask me who, I think I am.
"Why did you leave your happy 'ome and your children wot loved you?" The potman let off a whistle that you could have 'eard acrost the river, and as for me, I thought I should ha' dropped. To have a woman standing sobbing and taking my character away like that was a'most more than I could bear. "Did he run away from you?" ses the potman. "Ye-ye-yes," she ses.
"Oh, Bill!" ses the woman, sobbing louder than ever. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" "'Ow does she know your name, then?" ses the little beast of a potman. I didn't answer him. I might have told 'im that there's about five million Bills in England, but I didn't. I stood there with my arms folded acrost my chest, and looked at him, superior. "Where 'ave you been all this long, long time?" she ses, between her sobs.
Bridport won't be Bridport without you, and you've always been a true and valued friend to me, and such a helpful and sensible creature that I shall only know in the next world all I owe you. And between us, I don't see no reason at all why you shouldn't go on as my potman and more than that why shouldn't you marry a nice woman yourself and bring her here, if you've got a mind to it!"
Afore she could say anything the potman from the Tiger, a nasty ginger- 'aired little chap that nobody liked, come by and stopped to pat her on the back. "There, there, don't take on, mother," he ses. "Wot's he been a-doing to you?" "You get off 'ome," I ses, losing my temper. "Wot d'ye mean trying to drag me into it? I've never seen the woman afore in my life."
"He went off on a vy'ge to China over nine years ago, and that's the last I saw of 'im till to-night. A lady friend o' mine thought she reckernized 'im yesterday, and told me." "I shouldn't cry over 'im," ses the potman, shaking his 'ead: "he ain't worth it. If I was you I should just give 'im a bang or two over the 'ead with my umberella, and then give 'im in charge."
It comes through a line of ingenious, quickwitted, up-to-everything communicators, and is made known proximately to the fortunate possessor by a diplomatic potman, who waits in a room frequented by a groom, who pumped it out of a stable-boy, who It is not improbable that the information has somewhat deteriorated in its journeyings through mews and along dung-heaps: it is possible, when it comes to be made use of, it may be found very expensive in its application.
The time then must have been somewhere about six o'clock. He met a waggoner and tried to make him understand, but the tale he told and his appearance were so wild his hat had fallen off in the pit that the man simply drove on. He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge.
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