[The Sea-Wolf by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sea-Wolf CHAPTER XIII 5/11
It's all right for you, 'Ump.
You was born a gentleman. You never knew wot it was to go 'ungry, to cry yerself asleep with yer little belly gnawin' an' gnawin', like a rat inside yer.
It carn't come right.
If I was President of the United Stytes to-morrer, 'ow would it fill my belly for one time w'en I was a kiddy and it went empty? "'Ow could it, I s'y? I was born to sufferin' and sorrer.
I've had more cruel sufferin' than any ten men, I 'ave.
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