SECOND BOY. Sit a bit moor forrard, Billy, cann't 'ee!
FIRST BOY. _Cann't_, I tell 'ee, I be sittin' on th' scruff of 'is neck
as 'tis.
THIRD BOY. I can see my vaither, I can. 'Ere, vaither, vaither, look at
me--see wheer _I_ be!
FOURTH BOY (_a candid friend_). Shoot oop, cann't 'ee', ya young
gozzle-'ead! Think ya vaither niver see a hass on a hellyphant afoor!
FIFTH BOY. These yere helliphants be main straddly roidin'. I wish 'e
wudn't waak honly waun haff of 'en at oncest, loike. What do 'ee mean, a
kitchin' old o' me behind i' that way, eh, Jimmy Passons!
[Illustration: "I SEZ AS THAT UN'S A FAWKS, AN' I'M READY TO PROVE IT ON
ANNY MAN."]
SIXTH BOY. _You'd_ ketch 'old 'o hanything if you was like me, a slidin'
down th' helliphant's ta-ail.
FIFTH BOY. If 'ee doan't let go o' me, I'll job th' helliphant's ribs,
and make 'un gallop, I will, so _now_, Jimmy Passons!