You see I am not quite so--so--" He stopped with a sickly smile.
"Look ye here, Mr.Drake!" broke in the butcher: "you parsons ain't proper brought up.

You ain't learned to take care of yourselves.

Now us tradespeople, we're learned from the first to look arter number one, and not on no account to forget which _is_ number one.

But you parsons, now,--you'll excuse me, sir; I don't mean no offense; you ain't brought up to 't, an' it ain't to be expected of you--but it's a great neglect in your eddication, sir; an' the consekence is as how us as knows better 'as to take care on you as don't know no better.

I can't say I think much o' them 'senters: they don't stick by their own; but you're a honest man, sir, if ever there was a honest man as was again' the church, an' ask you for that money, I never will, acause I know when you can pay, it's pay you will.