"'Where did you get this?' 'e croaked, down 'is throat, like a pompous old Beak bullyragging a Cabby;
'Lawks, 'ere's a lark on!' I sez to myself. 'Hay? Git it?' I drawls, making heyes like a babby.
'Found it, perhaps?' sneers the Josser. 'Ah! p'r'aps so,' sez I, 'or maybe, dontcherknow, it was guv me.'
Lor, 'ow 'e bossed at me over 'is barnacles. Tenners, 'e thought, looked a long cut above me.
"'If you carn't give more straightforrard account of 'ow this ten-pun note came into your possession,
Wy, I shall detain it, and send for a constable,' snorts 'e, a-thinkin' 'e'd made a himpression.
'Well,' sez I, 'umble, 'a gentleman guv it me, if you must know.' Then 'e wagged 'is old pow-wow
And sez, 'I must 'ave that gent's name and address, and see into the thing, as I think sounds all bow-wow.'
"'Well, shall I take you to see 'im,' I asks, mild and mealy and timersome-like. Sniffin' orty
'E pops on a topper, and jumps in my cab. Then I druv 'im,—no, not to a 'undred and forty