"He ain't ill, sir.

I knows what 'tis.

I was down at the front when your friend Mr.Ramsey went out.

There was a lot of coaches and people, and the parson looked as white as a ghost.

He thinks ther'll be more coaches and people when you goes out, and he's gone off sooner than see 'em." During the chaplain's absences his _locum tenens_ was usually a gentleman of very opposite characteristics.