It wur one o' them baby-angels you sees on the gravestones, you know." "Nonsense, hubby!" said his wife; "but it's just as good.

I might say better, for you can ketch hold of him when you like.

That's little Diamond as everybody knows, and a duck o' diamonds he is! No woman could wish for a better child than he be." "I ha' heerd on him in the stable, but I never see the brat afore.

Come, old girl, let bygones be bygones, and gie us a kiss, and we'll go to bed." The cabman kept his cab in another yard, although he had his room in this.

He was often late in coming home, and was not one to take notice of children, especially when he was tipsy, which was oftener than not.
Hence, if he had ever seen Diamond, he did not know him.