Wot yer doing?' "'It's the thief,' ses Ginger.

"As it 'appened she came back with Uncle Dick that evening, to see 'im safe, and I see at once wot sort of a woman it was.

He says ter me, says he: 'Buster, ye're a boid, dat's wot ye are.

"All of a sudden," ses Sam, "they see they 'ad got to do with a man wot didn't know wot fear was, and they turned round and ran off as hard as they could run.

"'You've no idea wot fine, kind-'arted people they are in this village when their 'arts are touched,' he ses, smiling at Henery.

When I tell you that part o' the wedding-dress wot she was making 'ad to be taken away from 'er because o' the tears she dropped on it, you may 'ave some idea of wot things are like.

"And wot time do you say it was when I done it?" "Never you mind the time," said the other.

"Foot, sir?" said the unconscious Mr. Wilks; "wot foot?" "Why, the bad one," said Hardy, with a significant glance.

no matter wot colour she is," returned Peter, in a surly tone.

He 'opped about that bar 'arf crazy, until at last the landlord and 'is brother, and a couple o' soldiers, and a helpless cripple wot wos selling matches, put 'im outside and told 'im to stop there.

" "Wot difference did dat make?" "I didn't want you to remain here and suffer with a broken head.

Wot country is Africa in?" "Why, Africa's a continent!" said the startled youth.

"I don't mind wot people think.

"Wot cheer, BOBBY, old buster!"

"If you never run with the mersheen," observed the coroner, "you do' 'no' wot life is.

"Wot papers might you be lookin' fer?" asked this fellow cautiously, although he knew very well.

"Mahs' Junius he say to Miss Rob that he lub her better'n his own skin, or de clouds in de sky, or de flowers in de fiel' wot perish, an' dat de udder man he done cut an' run, an' would she be Miss Junius all de res' ob der libes foreber an' eber, amen?" "Dat wos pow'ful movin'!"

yer thinks, like the rest of the world, that the chaps wot smears, for it ain't drawing, the pavement with bits of bacon, a ship on fire, and the regulation oysters, does them out of their own 'eads?'

He sat there talking as though 'e enjoyed the sound of 'is own voice, and he told Peter and Ginger all their faults and said wot sorrow it caused their friends.

What's the 'ell-an-glory use o' flushin' out this blarsted bit of a sink, with devil-know-wot stinkin' cess-pool at the end of it!

I 'ad another sup o' the skipper's whisky to clear my 'ead, and sat down to try and think wot tale I was to tell 'im. I sat for pretty near three hours without thinking of one, and then I 'eard the crew come on to the wharf.

"He's a very good marketer," he ses, arter George 'ad gone; "he don't mind wot trouble he takes.

"Wot uniform?

" "See wot wot's like?" Tyler took out his card again, patiently.

Wot abaht good old London? Chestnut.