“Sor?”
“You are not in the habit of getting drunk?”
“No, sor!”
“Very good. You are not in the habit of getting drunk.”
“I never get dhrunk whin I’m at work sor. I get dhrunk Saturday nights.”
“Yes; when you have had a hard week’s work. I understand that”—
“I have a hard wake’s worruk every wake!” interrupted the defendant.
“But this is a thing that has grown upon you of late, as I understand. You were formerly a sober, temperate man, as your habits of industry imply.”
“Sor?”
“You have lately given way to a fondness for liquor, but up to within six months or a year ago you never drank to excess.”