After all you did----" "Please, missy, buy jist this one bunch.

These is the puttiest red-rose buds in dis whole town.

De red roses nearly all gone." "Nearly all gone," said I."What do you mean by telling such a fib ?"--I was going to say "lie," which was nearer the truth (if that isn't a bull); but there were several ladies about, and Priscilla herself was a girl.

"You know that there are red roses here all the year." "Please, boss," said Priscilla, rolling her eyes at me like an innocent calf, "wont you buy dese roses fur missy?
They's the puttiest roses I ever brought her yit." "I guess you've got a calcareous conscience, haven't you ?" said Rectus.
Priscilla looked at him, for a moment, as if she thought that he might want to buy something of that kind, but as she hadn't it to sell, she tried her flowers on him.
"Please, boss, wont you buy dese roses fur----" "No," said Rectus, "I wont." And we all turned and walked away.

It was no use to blow her up.