“Who were they—do you know their names?”
“Noa, zur, co’ant say I do nar ’em a’, zur.”
“But do you know any of them, was that gentleman behind you one?”
[The gentleman referred to was the fine benevolent-looking individual who had previously kindly endeavoured to assist the witness in his answers, and who stood the present scrutiny with marked composure and complaisance].
“Yees, zur, he war one on ’em.”
“Do you know his name?”
“Noa, zur, I doant; but he be one of the railway genelmen.”
“What did he say to you, when he requested you to sign the petition?”
“He said I ware to zine (pointing to the petition) that zummit.”
“When and where, pray, did you sign it?”