But now--why, 'a can't say bo to a goose! If 'a was to come and stand this moment where you be a-standing, and say, 'Mrs.Cheeseman, I want a fine rasher,' not a bit of gristle would I trim out, nor put it up in paper for him, as I do for you, ma'am." And Widow Shanks quite agreed with her.
"Never can I tell you what my feelings was, when I seed him a-standing by the monument, ma'am.

But I said to myself--'why, my poor John, as is now in heaven, poor fellow, would 'a took you up with one hand, my lord, stars and garters and crowns and all, and put you into his sow-west pocket.' And so he could have done, Mrs.Cheeseman." But the opinion of the men was different, because they knew a bee from a bull's foot.
"He may not be so very big," they said, "nor so outrageous thunderin', as the missus looked out for from what she have read.

They always goes by their own opinions, and wrong a score of times out of twenty.

But any one with a fork to his leg can see the sort of stuff he is made of.

He 'tended his duty in the house of the Lord, and he wouldn't look after the women; but he kept his live eye upon every young chap as were fit for a man-of-war's-man--Dan Tugwell especial, and young Harry Shanks.
You see if he don't have both of they afore ever the war comes on again!" Conscious of filling the public eye, with the privilege of being upon private view, Lord Nelson had faced the position without flinching, and drawn all the fire of the enemy.