How did such a wild imp know anything about the cost of lodging and firing?
'I tell yo I'll live on't,' he replied with energy; 'I'll get a room for half a crown--two shillin, p'r'aps--an I'll live on sixpence a day, see if I don't.' 'See if yo do!' retorted Louie, 'clemm on it more like.' 'That's all yo know about it, miss,' said David, in a tone, however, of high good humour; and, stretching one of his hands down a little further into his trousers pocket, he drew out a paper-covered book, so that just the top of it appeared.

'Yo're allus naggin about books.

Well; I tell yo, I've got an idea out o' thissen ull be worth shillins a week to me.

It's about Benjamin Franklin.

Never yo mind who Benjamin Franklin wor; but he wor a varra cute soart of a felly; an when he wor yoong, an had nobbut a few shillins a week, he made shift to save soom o' them shillins, becos he found he could do without eatin _flesh meat_, an that wi bread an meal an green stuff, a mon could do very well, an save soom brass every week.