I got my first dinner for three days, by carrying a gentleman's portmanteau for him.

And he, if you please, was afterwards my master.

He lived alone.

Bless you, he was as deaf then as he is now.

He says to me, 'If you bawl in my ears, I'll knock you down.' I thought to myself, you wouldn't say that, master, if you knew how I was employed twenty years ago.