“Oh, I dare say.”

“The guv’ has gone on in the other caravans to the fair, which is to take place—​bedad, I don’t know rightly where it’s to take place, but I’m to be there some time to-morrow.”

“Oh, you’re in the travelling show line, are you?”

“The guv’nor is—​I’m only an ondherstrapper, as you may call it—​a sort of handy man. But there’s a power of work to get through in one way and another.”

“Then where are you now bound for?”

“Is it where I am goin’ you mane?”

“Yes.”

“Och, sure, but it’s at a bit of a roadside house I’m afther making for—​‘The Blue Dolphin.’”

“And where is that situated?”

“Where? Sure, now, an’ it’ll be about a mile or so this side of Pocklington.”