But look here, Ram, how could your father make Sir Risdon, who is a gentleman, lend him the cellar ?" "'Cause father and mother used to pretty well keep 'em.

I had to be always going without father knowing, and taking 'em bread and butter and bacon and eggs.

They just are poor.

Mother used to send me, and she often used to tell me that they was 'most starved to death." "Then Sir Risdon didn't get anything by the smuggling ?" "Him!" cried Ram.

"Why, father sent me up one day with a keg of brandy for him, and a piece of silk for her ladyship; I did get hot that day carrying of 'em up the hill.