"Why, men!" said Billy, "tha's a chance as how the lad's alive.

"Ah!" thinly piped she of the mosquito voice, "what a fine day tha's been, to-day!"

And tha's the way it is every crack outa the box.

"Tha was Bob Pretty all over, that was; the biggest raskel Claybury 'as ever had; and it wasn't the fust bit o' money 'e made out