COCKNEY NARRATIVE.

I _laid_ at my friend's house last night, and _just_ as I _laid me down_

to sleep, I heard a rumbling at the window of my chamber, which was

_just_ over the kitchen, a sort of portico, the top of which was _just_

even with the floor of my room. Well, I _just_ peeped up, and as the

moon was _just_ rising, I _just_ saw the head of a man; so I _got me up_

softly, _just_ as I was, in my shirt, _goes_ to where the pistols _laid_

that I had _just_ loaded, and laid them _just_ within my reach. I hid

myself behind the curtains, _just_ as he was completely in the room.

_Just_ as I was about to lift my hand to shoot him, _thinks I_, would it

be _just_ to kill _this here_ man, without _one_ were sure he came with

an _unjust_ intention? so I _just_ cried out _hem!_ upon which he fell

to the ground, and there he _laid_, and I could _just_ see that he

looked _just_ as if he was dead; so I _just_ asked him what business he

had in _that there_ room? Poor man! he could _just_ speak, and said he

had _just_ come to see Mary!

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