Yo can pey mo as yo coom back.

Awhope you 'n lost noan so mich ?" "Not much, but all I had," answered Cosmo.

"I am much obliged to you, but I'm not likely ever to be this way again, so I can't accept your kindness.

I am sorry to have troubled you, but after all, I have the worst of it," he added, smiling, "for I am very hungry." [Illustration: COSMO PROPOSES TO WORK FOR HIS DINNER.] As he spoke, he turned away, and had laid his hand on the latch of the door, when the woman spoke again.
"Tak th' loaf," she said; "it'll be aw the same in less than a hunder year." She spoke crossly, almost angrily.

Cosmo seemed to himself to understand her entirely.