"It's a wonder she didn't rouse the whole 'ouse," he said, wiping his brow on his sleeve; "and where should we ha' been then?

"My missis never leaves the 'ouse unless I'm with her, except when I'm at work; and if she thought I knew of it she'd take and put it in some bank or somewhere unbeknown to me, and I should be farther off it than ever.

He used to put saucers of milk all round the 'ouse for cats to drink, and, by the time pore Farmer Hall got back, every cat for three miles round 'ad got in the habit of coming round to the back-door and asking for milk as if it was their right.

"Screamscream the 'ouse down?" said the distressed Mr. Kidd.

"Mr. Bunnett 'is name was, and 'e come down and took Farmer Hall's 'ouse for the summer.

In duty to 'Ucks, I got to choose Mortimer a pitch where he'll draw a 'ouse.

"I've got a nice little 'ouse," continued the wily Mr. Miller.

He was one o' these 'ere fust-class 'ousepainters that can go to sleep on a ladder holding a brush in one hand and a pot o' paint in the other, and by the time he 'ad finished painting the 'ouse it was ready to be done all over agin.

I tell you, strit can't pass at me 'ouse.

" Before they'd finished the Prettys 'ad picked that 'ouse as clean as a bone, and Joe Clark 'ad to go and get clean straw for his wife and children to sleep on; not that Mrs. Clark 'ad any sleep that night, nor Joe neither.

" "I'll give you arf a crown if you let me search your 'ouse, Bob," ses Bill Chambers, looking at 'im very 'ard.

Dry smug as can't 'andle a gun, I'll bet Marlboro' 'Ouse to a broomstick, and ain't got no notion of Fun.

"He'll wake the 'ouse up in a minute," ses Peter.

"No," she said, "bud a man wad godd some 'ouses to rend, muz ee nod boun' to ged 'is rend?" "Boun' to gedah!

'Her 'usband bought the lease o' two little 'ouses in Church Street, and they braät 'er in six shillins a week for years, an she allus said she'd leave it to Bessie if she wor took afore the lease wor up.

On Sunday I called at the manur 'ouse an' asked cook if she hed any message vor Sairy Jane.

"The others'll be made by the same party as washes the children, and cooks their dinner for 'em, and puts 'em to bed, and cleans the 'ouse," was the reply.

You don' wan' come ad 'er 'ouse, eh?an' you don' wan' her to come ad yo' bureau.