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Thur's sixpence vor the sausingers, tuppence vor bread an' butter, an' dreppence the pop, that meaks 'levenpence"; an' I drows down a shillin', and ses, "Thur's the odd penny vor the young 'ooman as waited upon me." "You hed thirteen shillin's worth o' grub an' shampane, an' you'll hev to pay twelve shillin's moor or I shall take 'e away an' lock 'e up vor the night," he sed.
I wur tell'd Paddington wur the Lunnon stashun by a porter, an' I look'd round vor Sairy Jane, as she sed as how her ud be heer at one o'clock; and porter sed 'twer then dree o'clock, an' likely Sairy Jane had gone away. Drat thay sausingers as mead I too late vor the train! I set down to wait for Sairy Jane, as I didn't know her directions, an' hed left the letter she sent at whoam.
"We doan't kip a baker's shop," she sed. "Thur's cakes, an' biskits, an' sponge cakes." "Hev 'e got sum good bacon, raythur vattish?" I sed. "No, sur; but thur's sum good poork sausingers at sixpence." "Hand awver the pleat, young 'ooman," I sed, "an' I'll trubble you vor the mustard, an' salt, an' that pleat o' bread an' butter, an' I'll set down an' hev a bit of a snack."
She sed the sausingers wur sixpence each, an' twenty-vour slices o' bread an' butter wur a penny each two shillin's. I sed, "Do 'e call that reysonable, young 'ooman? 'cause I bain't a-gwain to pay thirteen shillin's vor't, an' lose me train, an' disappoint Sairy Jane.
The sausingers wur very good, an' teasted moorish aal the time; but the bread an' butter wur so nation thin that I had to clap dree or vour pieces together to get a mouthful. I didn't seem to want a knife or vork, but the young 'ooman put a white-handled knife an' silver vork avoor me.
Thay sed I could go in an' vinish the sausingers now, an' that wur what I intended to do. I asked the young 'ooman for a bottle o' ale, when she put a tallish bottle down wi' a beg head; an' as I wur dry I knocked the neck off, an' the ale kum a-fizzing out like ginger pop, an' 'twer no use to try to stop the fizzle. I had aal I could get in a glass, an' it zeemed goodish.
"Seven sausingers, dree and sixpence; twenty-vour slices o' bread an' butter, two shillin's; an' a bottle of shampane, seven and sixpence; kums to thirteen shillin's," she sed. "Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
Thirteen shillin's vor two or dree sausingers, a few slices o' bread an' butter, an' a bottle o' pop not vor Roger, if he knows it" Up kums a chap an' ses, "Be you gwain to pay vor wat you hev hed?" "To be sure I be.
The pleat o' bread an' butter didn't hold out vor the sausingers, so I hed another pleat o' bread an' butter, an' wur getting on vine. I seem'd to want summut to wet me whistle, an' wur gwain to order a quart o' ale, when I heers a whistle an' a grunt vram a steamer, an' out I goos; an', begum! he wur off.
Springwheat, cutting deep into the white breast. 'I will, replied his lordship, 'I will: and a slice of tongue, too, added he. 'There are some hot sausingers comin', observed Mr. Springwheat. 'You don't say so, replied his lordship, apparently thunderstruck at the announcement. 'Well, I must have all three.
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