Jonah stood his ground, and pointed out, with cynical candour, his unfitness to keep a wife.

But Mrs Yabsley seized the opportunity to sketch out a career for him, with voluminous instances, for she had foreseen and arranged all that.
"An' 'oo's ter blame fer that ?" she cried, "a feller that oughter be gittin' 'is three pounds a week.

W'y, look at Dave Brown.

Don't I remember the time 'e used ter 'awk a basket o' fish on Fridays, an' doss in park?
An' now 'e goes round in a white shirt, an' draws 'is rents.

An' mark me, it was gittin' married did that fer 'im.