Never had such a game, in all my born days." And the blacksmith sat down on a stool, to indulge in a great fit of laughing.
"What was the game ?" Reuben asked.
"Well, you know, Stokes he was the foreman, and a Cockney sort of chap he be.

He turns round in the box and, says he: "'In course you are all agreed.' "'Agreed as how ?' says I.
"'Why, agreed as he's guilty, in course,' says he.
"'Nothing of the sort,' says I.'I believes he's as innocent as a child unborn.' "Then they all comes round me and jaws; but seeing as I wasn't going to give in, Stokes he asked the judge for leave to retire.
"Well, when we retires they all pitches into me, and says as it's monstrous one man should hold out agin eleven; and that, even if I didn't feel sure myself, I ought to go as the others went.

So I didn't say much, but I sits myself down and brings out a big chunk of bread and bacon, as my good woman had put into my pocket, and I begins to eat.
"'Look you here,' says I, 'I ha' got four parcels like this.

Today be Friday, and I can hold on easy till Tuesday.

That's how I looks at it.