Lor' a mussy me! I'd sooner live in one of our sheds on some straw, with a sack for a pillow, than be shut up along o' these folk in them courts." "But they wouldn't have hurt me, Ike ?" I said.
"I dunno, my lad.

P'r'aps they would, p'r'aps they wouldn't.

They might have kept you and made a bad un of yer.

Frightened you into it like." I shook my head.
"Ah! you don't know, my lad.

How much did they get ?" "Two shillings and ninepence halfpenny," I said dolefully.
"And a nearly new rope.