I'm fair sick of it.' 'You have been in Be--England ?' 'W'y, I only come out last troopin' season with my mother.

I should think I 'ave been in England.

What a ignorant little beggar you are! You was brought up in the gutter, wasn't you ?' 'Oah yess.

Tell me something about England.

My father he came from there.' Though he would not say so, Kim of course disbelieved every word the drummer-boy spoke about the Liverpool suburb which was his England.