None zo ramshacklin' as yu du be, Miss Zairy." "There's nobody about that he doesn't remember as a child," said Sarah, apologetically.

"He's so old, you see.

He doesn't remember how old he is, and nobody can tell him.

But he knows he was born in the reign of George the Third, because his mother told him so; and he remembers his father coming in with news of the Battle of Waterloo, So I think he must be about ninety." "Lard, mar like a hunderd year old, I be," said Happy Jack, offended.
"And luke how I du wark yit.

Yif I'd 'a give up my wark, I shude 'a bin in the churchyard along o' the idlers, that 'a shude." He chuckled and winked.