Bein' a bit free with me speech in those days I dessay I said 'Go to Hell.' But he only laughed and left me fifty pounds.
"Well, I lived with this young student for a matter of six months.

A lovely time we had, till he began gettin' melancholy--matter of no money partly.

He tried bein' a journalist.
"Then the Church got him back.

There came about a reg'lar change in him, and just at the time when _you_ was comin' along.

He woke up one night in a cold sweat and said he was eternally damned.
'Nonsense,' I says, 'it's them crayfish; you ought never to eat that bisque soup...' "But he meant it.