Is anybody in attendance who knows anything more ?" Mrs.Piper pushed forward by Mrs.Perkins.

Mrs.Piper sworn.
Anastasia Piper, gentlemen.

Married woman.

Now, Mrs.Piper, what have you got to say about this?
Why, Mrs.Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Mrs.Piper lives in the court (which her husband is a cabinet-maker), and it has long been well beknown among the neighbours (counting from the day next but one before the half-baptizing of Alexander James Piper aged eighteen months and four days old on accounts of not being expected to live such was the sufferings gentlemen of that child in his gums) as the plaintive--so Mrs.Piper insists on calling the deceased--was reported to have sold himself.