As for farming, it's putting money into your pocket wi' your right hand and fetching it out wi' your left.

As fur as I can see, it's raising victual for other folks and just getting a mouthful for yourself and your children as you go along.

Not as you'd be like a poor man as wants to get his bread--you could afford to lose as much money as you liked i' farming--but it's poor fun losing money, I should think, though I understan' it's what the great folks i' London play at more than anything.

For my husband heard at market as Lord Dacey's eldest son had lost thousands upo' thousands to the Prince o' Wales, and they said my lady was going to pawn her jewels to pay for him.

But you know more about that than I do, sir.