People do call their unlawful children strange names.

Are you quite shure you haven't another alyas, Masther Thames Ditton ?" "Darrell, I tell you.

Will you go?
You'll be paid handsomely for your trouble." "I don't mind the throuble," hesitated Terence, who was really a good-hearted fellow at the bottom; "and I'd like to sarve you if I could, for you look like a gentleman's son, and that goes a great way wi' me.

But if Misther Wild were to find out that I thwarted his schames----" "I'd not be in your skin for a trifle," interrupted Quilt, who having secured Sheppard, and delivered him to Abraham, now approached them unawares; "and it shan't be my fault if he don't hear of it." "'Ouns!" ejaculated Terence, in alarm, "would you turn snitch on your old pal, Quilt ?" "Ay, if he plays a-cross," returned Quilt.

"Come along, my sly shaver.
With all your cunning, we're more than a match for you." "But not for me," growled Terence, in an under tone.
"Remember!" cried Quilt, as he forced the captive along.
"Remember the devil!" retorted Terence, who had recovered his natural audacity.