"His friends'd kill him if he did." "They all make fun of my singin'," he complained to Saxon.

"Honest, now, do you find it as rotten as all that ?" "It's...

it's maybe flat a bit," she admitted reluctantly.
"It don't sound flat to me," he protested.

"It's a regular josh on me.
I'll bet Bert put you up to it.

You sing something now, Saxon.