That's what I tells my Jim; he is always a-wanting to have his own way.

That comes from being a captain; but, as I tells him, it's only reasonable as he is captain on board his ship I should be captain in my house.

I suppose you are going to school ?" "No, I am not.

My school is just over." "Going all the way up to London ?" "Yes." "That's a mercy," the woman said.

"I was afraid you might be only going as far as Canterbury, and then I might have got some big chap up here who would squeeze me as flat as a pancake.