Try those chops in front of you, sir, they are prime, as Charlie will tell you.

Reader, old man, draw in and keep us company.

Well, I declare, this _is_ a jolly family party! And what's the news down in your part of the world?
Have you had a good harvest?
My uncle comes from Cornwall, Charlie." And he gave his friend a lugubrious wink, as much as to say, "Keep it up." "Do you live near the sea ?" thereupon began Charlie.
"Pretty near, that is, about twenty miles off," said the uncle, looking at Charlie under his spectacles.
"My love, the gentleman will laugh at you," said his good lady.

"I call twenty miles a long way." "I perfectly agree with you, ma'am," said Charlie, "Twenty miles is a good distance in this little island of ours.

But it's curious how little they make of such a distance in a big country like India, for instance, where I am going.