"Yes, I be. I can work. That's what yu'm paid for, ain't it?"
"How many cups an' saucers have yu smashed this week?"
"Have they learned 'ee all yu wants to know up to school?" inquired Grannie Pinn quietly, but with a twinkle at the company.
"They an't learned me to play the pi-anno. That's what I wants now. If Dad 'd get one, I'd play."
"Have they learned 'ee to cook a dinner?"
"Anybody can du thic. I've learned to play God Save the King on the school pi-anno."
"How do 'ee start then?"
"Why, you puts your fingers...."
"Naw! I means how du 'ee start to cook dinner?"
"Peuh!"