That was our natural victuals; nuts with occasional bananas.

As I used to tell 'im, if that was so, then for all we 'ad got out of it we might just as well have stopped up a tree--saved rent and shoe leather.

But 'e was one of that sort that don't seem able to 'elp believing everything they read in print.

If one of those papers 'ad told 'im to live on the shells and throw away the nuts, 'e'd have made a conscientious endeavour to do so, contending that 'is failure to digest them was merely the result of vicious training--didn't seem to 'ave any likes or dislikes of 'is own.

You might 'ave thought 'e was just a bit of public property made to be experimented upon.
"One of the daily papers interviewed an old gent, as said 'e was a 'undred, and I will say from 'is picture as any'ow 'e looked it.