"'Wots the matter with it?' ses Mr. Bunnett.

"'We've all got a better chance than wot you 'ave, Bob,' ses little Dicky Weed the tailor.

"Ah! wot a thing it is to come acrost an honest man.

'Wot a lovely evening!' "'Bee-utiful!'

I wish as 'ow Bill Chambers and Henery Walker and a few more 'ad been 'ere just now.' "Mr. Bunnett agreed with 'im, and said wot a pity it was everybody 'adn't got Bob Pretty's commonsense and good feeling.

"Wot a good job it is he's got me and you to look arter 'im, Peter.

He chucked the pot on the floor when he 'ad done, in a desprit sort o' way, and 'im and the landlord 'ad a little breeze then that did 'im more good than wot the beer 'ad.

'Wot a shame it is, Ted!

"Sam held out his 'and, and the lodger, arter saying it was only a little bit o' fun on 'is part, and telling 'im wot a fancy he 'ad taken to 'im from the fust, put Ginger's watch and chain into his 'ands and eighteen pounds four shillings and sevenpence.

" He finished up 'is beer, and while the other chaps was telling George Barstow wot a fool he was Joe Clark slipped out arter Bob Pretty and began to call 'im all the names he could think of.

'He's a kind- 'arted old gen'leman when 'e's left alone, and he'll soon see wot a mistake 'e's made about me.

Life is full o' surprises, Mr. Wilks, and wot a big surprise it would be to you if you could 'ear wot he says about you when he comes to 'is senses.

"'Ow do you know they was there, then?" ses I. "Because you took charge of 'em," said the skipper; "and I know wot a clever, sharp chap you are.

Mrs. Bullet began to cry agin, and say wot a good 'usband he 'ad been.

He asked the squire for 'elp, but the squire wouldn't give it to 'im, and he kept telling 'im wot a feather in 'is cap it would be if 'e did wot the other two couldn't do, and caught Bob Pretty.

Then Mr. Alfredi took his coat off and, dipping a piece of rag into a basin of stuff wot George 'ad fetched, did Rupert a lovely brown all over.

" She began to gasp and sob, and Bill began to think wot a good wife he 'ad got, when he felt 'er put a couple of pillers over where she judged his 'ead to be, and hold 'em down with her arm.

" "Wot a jolly game football is, ain't it?" said Davie seating himself on a hummock, and still panting hard.

"Wots the little game?"

"And wot a tree-mendous giant he makes.

"Wot a brute it is!" said Buzzby, sitting down on a lump of ice and looking at it in despair.

And, arter a lot o' talking and quarrelling, they did wot a lot of other people 'ave done when they got into trouble: they came to me.

That of the first runs thus: "Anander lets Anetor wot His love, his lady, and his lot.

He used to trade between this wharf and Bristol on a little schooner called the Firefly, and seeing wot a silly, foolish kind o' man he was, I took a little bit o' notice of 'im.

"'Beer's your trouble,' he ses, at last. 'Fust of all you put it down, and then it climbs up and soaks wot little brains you've got.