The doctor says I can't get it, so there's no sort o' fear.' I wur young and simple then, and thowt doctors never made a mistake.

Well, sur, in two months more I were down wi' small-pox, and when I got up again I wur a sight to behold.

As soon as I wur fit to be seen I went to Susan to git a mite o' comfort, and then I see 'er a-courtin' wi' the coachman.

And I says to myself, 'Simon Slowden,' I says, 'this yer is the last time you must be ever taken in;' and now I'm right mad that I should 'a bin licked in this yer way." I could not help laughing at Simon's story, in spite of my heavy heart, and so I asked him what the doctor said when he found vaccination a failure.
"Sent me off without a character, sur," he replied grimly.

"Said he couldn't keep a servant as would be a livin' advertisement as 'ow his pet 'obby wer a failure.