“Murder, my son-red, grim, gory murder!”

“Guilty?”

“Guilty, ya'as. What do you think?”

“Then you may go to hell”.

'Ell is it? I'm there: and if I linger longer loo in it, you linger, too, swelp me Gawd!”

Hogarth was nonplussed.

“But the foot...”

“Never mind the foot. Foot's still good for a run. Do we go shares?”

“Come along, then”.

“But you ain't 'alf up to snuff, I can see, though you are pretty smart in your own way: I'd 'ave felt the confidence of a son in you, if you 'adn't overlooked that wine—”