“What did ee eat for breakfast?”

“Fish as I catched at sunrise.”

“An’ what’ll ee have for supper?”

“Fish again.”

“Seems a lot o’ fish in one day,” Tommy stated.

“Why, yes; of course. ’Twouldn’t be so cheap to live else, Tommy. Don’t ee know thicky tiddley verse:

Fish for breakfast that we ’ad,

An’ for dinner ’ad a chad,

An’ for tea we ’ad some ray,

So we ’ad fish three times that day!”