He's been very uppish for some time (all his own fault he hadn't been more edicated); told his mother and me, afore he sailed for the West Indies, as he'd been trying hard for some time to turn gentleman.

'I shall give myself all the airs that ever I can,' he says, 'when once I get out there.' 'Why, you young ass!' says I, 'for it's agen my religion to call you a fool (let alone your mother wouldn't like it), arn't you awear that giving himself airs is exactly what no real gentleman ever does ?' 'A good lot of things,' says he, 'father, goes to the making of a gentleman.' 'Ay, Joey,' says I, 'but ain't a gentleman a man with good manners?
Now a good-manner'd man is allers saying by his ways and looks to them that air beneath him, "You're as good as I am!" and a bad-manner'd man is allers saying by his ways and looks to them that air above him, "I'm as good as you air!" There's a good many folks,' I says (not knowing I should repeat it to you this day, Mr.Crayshaw), 'as will have it, that because we shall all ekally have to be judged in the next world, we must be all ekal in this.

In some things I uphold we air, and in others I say we're not.

Now your real gentleman thinks most of them things that make men ekal, and t'other chap thinks most of what makes them unekal.'" "Hear, hear!" said Johnnie.

"And what did Joey thay to that, Thwan ?" "He didn't say much," answered Swan in his most pragmatical manner.