He wasn't no journalist, I'll swear to that.

I asked him about his paper.
'Half-a-dozen,' he declared.

'They're all glad to have what I send them.' Journalist! Lord knows who the other chap was and what he was asking questions for, but this one was a 'tec, straight.

Joe Forman, he was in to-day looking after my place, for I'd given a month's notice, and he says to me, 'You see that big chap ?'--meaning him as had been asking me the questions--and I says 'Yes!' and he says, 'That's a 'tee.

I've seed him in a police court, giving evidence.' I went all of a shiver so that you could have knocked me down." "Come, come!" said Laverick.