Sometimes it was she who looked at him, and then her chuckle of triumph was hard to bear.
As long as his mother was there, however, he endured in silence, but the first day she went out in a vain search for work (it is about as difficult to get washing as to get into the Cabinet), he gave the infant a piece of his mind, poking up her head with a stick so that she was bound to listen.
"You thinks as it was clever on you, does yer?
Oh, if I had been on the stair! "You needn't not try to get round me.

I likes the other one five times better; yes, three times better.
"Thievey, thievey, thief, that's her place you is lying in.

What?
"If you puts out your tongue at me again--! What do yer say?
"She was twice bigger than you.

You ain't got no hair, nor yet no teeth.
You're the littlest I ever seed.

Eh?
Don't not speak then, sulks!" Prudence had kept him away from the other girl, but he was feeling a great want: someone to applaud him.