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Most wisiters to that old 'ooman begins their acquaintance with her by knocking at her door with their noses instead of their knuckles. We calls her place the cabin, 'cause the windows is raither small, and over'angs the river." "Well then, my lad," said the seaman, "clap a stopper on your tongue, if you can, and heave ahead."
An' i' furren parts, what wi' earthquakes an' wolcanies an' lions an' tigers, an' savages as eats their wisiters, an' chimley-pots blowin' about, an' ships goin' down, an' fathers o' families choked an' drownded an' burnt i' coal-pits by the hundred, it do seem to me that if his jinerin' hadn't been tip-top, it would ha' been but like the rest on it. There, grannie!
Sumhows or other, weather it was hoeing to the nobel Lunch or not, I don't kno, we lost our way, and found ourselves at larst, not where we all wanted to be, but at a most bewtifool House of call, where they has the werry sensebel custom that, when they thinks as wisiters has had enuff drink, they won't let 'em have not a Drop More, and that is acshally the name by which the ouse is known, both far and wide!
As he unlocked the gate he said: "We 'ave many wisiters, sir; a great bother, sir; still, I always knows a gentleman when I sees one. P'r'aps you would like to see the 'ouse, too, sir. The missus does not like it much, but I will take 'er your card, sir." I gave him the card and slipped a shilling into his hand as he gave me a seat in the hallway.
"Yes, miss, dey most, in gen'al, is at dis hour ob de night, dough dey don't expect wisiters." "Are all the family here?" "Dey is, miss."
"O, Roby? ah," returned the small boy, looking sedately at the ground, "let me see yes, that's the name of the old 'ooman, I think, wot 'angs out in the cabin, right-'and stair, top floor, end of the passage, w'ere most wisiters flattens their noses, by consekince of there bein' no light, and a step close to the door which inwariably trips 'em up.
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