"May be av he'd gone there, he'd never have stood here this day."
"You wanted him to go to Mrs. Mulready's, then?"
"Wanted! No, I didn't want nothing about it."
"You only asked him to go?"
"Jist as I towld you; I said av he guv the boys his word, as a man he shouldn't go from it."
"Did you say anything to him about Mr. Jonas Brown?"
"Jonas Brown?"
"Yes, Mr. Jonas Brown, the magistrate?"
"Faix, I don't know. I can't rightly say."
"Think now, my man; when you were trying to persuade your master to go to the widow Mulready's, did you mention Mr. Jonas Brown's name?"