I find it hard to concentrate my attention this morning." "Ef I mou't make free to shake 'ee agen--" "I should prefer any other cure." "Very well, sir.

I _have_ heerd, from trippers as comes to Troy, to spend the day an' get drunk in anuther parish for vari'ty's sake, as a pennorth o' say es uncommon refreshin'." "A pennyworth of sea ?" "That's so, sir.

Twelve in a boat, an' a copper a head to the boatman to row so far as there an' back, which es cheap an' empt'in' at the price, as a chap told me." "You advise me to take a row ?" "Iss, sir; on'y I reckon you'd best go up the river, ef you'm goin' alone.

Though whether you prefers the resk o' meetin' Adm'ral Buzza to bein' turned topsy-versy outside the harbour-mouth, es a question I leaves to you.

'Tes a matter o' taste, as Mounseer said by the yaller frog." Mr.Fogo decided to risk an encounter with the Admiral.