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"What did 'e want to go and git the fair 'ump about?" 11
"What's she got hold of now?" 21
"You have lofty ambitions and the artistic temperament" 37
"They ain't on'y a lot o' sheep! I thought it was reciters,
or somethink o' that" 55
"Mokestrians" 75
"Dear, dear! _not_ a county family!" 125
"Well, he's had a sharp lesson,--there's no denying that" 135
"None of your humour here, mind!" 155
"I cann't get nothen done to 'en till the weather's a bit
more hopen like" 171
"They haven't the _patiensh_ for it" 183
"It must be a sort of animal, I suppose" 193
"I see _him_ standing on the very brink of the precipice" 209
"To-night is ours!" 225
"Why the blazes don't ye take it?" 239
"Thash where 'tis, yer come on me too late!" 251
"'Ere, Florrie, you ain't _croying_, are yer?" 271
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