"Says I to him, `So t'other bloke,' (meaning you), `has lagged off,' I says.

`Yes,' says he, `we don't live together no more ?' says he.

`I know all about it,' says I; `I seen the animal,' (meaning you), says I, `o' Toosday.' `Did you ?' says he.

`Yaas,' I says, `and nice and boozy he was,' I says, `at eleving o'clock o' night,' I says.

`Did he say anything about me ?' he says; and I told him, and he says he must go off, he says, 'cos he didn't want to be 'ere, he says, when you come.