Me and some ither chiels sat down to the drinkin', and here I am.

Peety that I ever lookit on the wine when it was red!' I agreed with him about bed.

'It's easy speakin',' he moaned.

'But I got a postcard yestreen sayin' that the new Road Surveyor would be round the day.

He'll come and he'll no find me, or else he'll find me fou, and either way I'm a done man.