Stuffed in his month: to choke 's a natural mishap!'

'Gaffer, be—blessed,' cries she, 'and Bagman Dick as well!

I, you, and he are damned: this Public is our hell:

We live in fire: live coals don't feel!—once quenched, they learn—

Cinders do, to what dust they moulder while they burn!'

"'If you don't speak straight out,' says I—belike I swore—

'A knobstick, well you know the taste of, shall, once more,

Teach you to talk, my maid!' She ups with such a face,

Heart sunk inside me. 'Well, pad on, my prate-apace!'

"'I 've been about those laces we need for ... never mind!