To tell the truth, sir, I don't think he's ever rightly sober, and I've heard others say the same.

And his business is fallin' off, something shockin'.

Customers don't like to be insulted; that's only natural.

He's always going down to Kempton Park, or Epsom, or some such place.

They do say as he lost 'undreds of pounds at Kempton Park last week.