George Manville Fenn
"Off to the Wilds"
Chapter One.
Coffee and Chicory, but not for Breakfast.
“Just look at him, Dick. Be quiet; don’t speak.”
“Oh, the dirty sunburnt little varmint! I’d like the job o’ washing him.”
“If you say another word, Dinny, I’ll give you a crack with your own stick.”
“An’ is it meself would belave you’d hurt your own man Dinny wid a shtick, Masther Jack? Why ye wouldn’t knock a fly off me.”