I want fifty thousand pounds, an' oo's goin' to give it to me?
Not the public.

They're fed up on shippin'.
They're not so silly as they used to be.

I put it to owd Dickey yesterday, an' 'e said you couldn't raise money in Liverpool to-day to build a ferry-boat.

But 'e said summat else.

If you wed 'im, 'e makes you a partner in the firm of Verity, Bulmer an' Co.