TOM.

Aye, John, I have, John; an' I ben't afeärd

To own it. Why, who woulden do the seäme?

We shant goo on lik' this long, I can tell ye.

Bread is so high an' wages be so low,

That, after workèn lik' a hoss, you know,

A man can't eärn enough to vill his belly.

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