‘Boiled beef and carrots.
‘Boiled pork and pease-pudding.’
‘It’s sixpence-halfpenny if you have it here, sixpence if you go out for it.’
Paul made his choice, and the boy said ‘Vedge?’ in an accent of inquiry.
‘What’s “vedge”?’
The boy looked up in a momentary wonder, and then grinned knowingly, and shook his head.
‘What do you mean by “vedge”?’
‘Ah!’ said the boy, ‘you don’t get over me.’
‘I’m not trying to get over you. I want to know what you mean.’
‘Oh yes,’ said the boy; ‘of course you do! They don’t eat greens and taters where you come from! Oh dear no; not at all!’