"She got married to a sailor about two year ago," said she, "an' he wint away a fortnit after, an' never was heard of since.

They wint a matter of ten rods and then I saw the lamps again.

Jarl says he wint a mile a minut', an' the little man never turned a hair.

I wint on, on, on, out ov one room an' into another, till my head was fairly addled, an' I thought I'd never come to the ind.

Thin he asked me where I was a livin' in London, and, when I towld him nowhere, he towld me av a room in Musson Street, here by Drury Lane, that was to let, in a house his fam'ly knew very well, an' I wint straight there an' tuk ut, an' there I do be stayin' still, sor.