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The schoolmaster put his hand in his pocket, and produced two half-crowns, and placed them in Mr Riderhood's palm: who stopped at a convenient doorstep to ring them both, before acknowledging their receipt. 'There's one thing about you, T'otherest Governor, said Riderhood, faring on again, 'as looks well and goes fur. You're a ready money man.
'It is of no consequence. I know where to find you, and I'll come to your Lock. 'But, T'otherest Governor, urged Mr Riderhood again, 'no luck never come yet of a dry acquaintance. Let's wet it, in a mouth-fill of rum and milk, T'otherest Governor.
With the look of one just awakened, he followed Riderhood into the Lock-house, where the latter produced from a cupboard some cold salt beef and half a loaf, some gin in a bottle, and some water in a jug. The last he brought in, cool and dripping, from the river. 'There, T'otherest, said Riderhood, stooping over him to put it on the table.
How, otherways, could a doubt have come into your head about it, governor? 'As the sun goes down, I intend to go on, said Bradley. 'So much the more necessairy is a Peck, returned Riderhood. 'Come in and have it, T'otherest.
'Cause they had both stood betwixt him and his getting his living by the sweat of his brow. 'It will not be long then, said Bradley Headstone, after some more discourse to this effect, 'before we see one another again. Here is the country road, and here is the day. Both have come upon me by surprise. 'But, T'otherest Governor, urged Mr Riderhood, 'I don't know where to find you.
'Hooroar! cried the man. 'Hooroar T'other t'other Governor. Hooroar T'otherest Governor! I am of your way of thinkin'. 'Don't make such a noise at this dead hour of the night. What are you talking about? 'Look here, T'otherest Governor, replied the man, becoming hoarsely confidential.
So, when the words were all spoken, he too kneeled on one knee on the grass, and the two men looked at one another. 'Oh! said Riderhood, very deliberately spitting out the grass he had been chewing. 'Then, I make out, T'otherest, as he is a-going to her? 'He left London, answered Bradley, 'yesterday. I have hardly a doubt, this time, that at last he is going to her. 'You ain't sure, then?
Then, Riderhood sat up and took a long look at his figure, and then cried: 'Hi I i! Lock, ho! Lock! Plashwater Weir Mill Lock! The bargeman stopped, and looked back. 'Plashwater Weir Mill Lock, T'otherest gov er nor or or or! cried Mr Riderhood, with his hands to his mouth. The bargeman turned back.
Riderhood nodded, and asked: 'Is it for that? 'It's as much for that as anything else. It's something to be agreed with, on a subject that occupies so much of one's thoughts. 'It don't agree with YOU, returned Mr Riderhood, bluntly. 'No! It don't, T'otherest Governor, and it's no use a lookin' as if you wanted to make out that it did. I tell you it rankles in you.
I'd ha' liked to plump down aboard of him, neck and crop, with a heavy jump, and sunk him. Bradley turned away his haggard face for a few moments, and then said, tearing up a tuft of grass: 'Damn him! 'Hooroar! cried Riderhood. 'Does you credit! Hooroar! I cry chorus to the T'otherest.
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