We tuck 'er in a year ago--'er own relations 'ad played 'er a dirty trick.

Mustn't let 'er catch me sayin' so, though; she won't 'ear a word against 'em, and that's as it should be." Looking round, and finding Polly absent from the room, she went on to tell Mahony how Polly's eldest brother, a ten years' resident in Melbourne, had sent to England for the girl on her leaving school, to come out and assist in keeping his house.

And how an elder sister, who was governessing in Sydney, had chosen just this moment to throw up her post and return to quarter herself upon the brother.
"An' so when Polly gets 'ere--a little bit of a thing in short frocks, in charge of the capt'n--there was no room for 'er, an' she 'ad to look about 'er for somethin' else to do.

We tuck 'er in, an', I will say, I've never regretted it.

Indeed I don't know now, 'ow we ever got on without 'er .-- Yes, it's you I'm talkin' about, miss, singin' yer praises, an' you needn't get as red as if you'd bin up to mischief! Pa'll say as much for you, too." "That I will!" said Mr.Beamish, opening his mouth for the first time except to put food in it.