"What do you want to know for ?" I says--'cos you see he was a bloke as I didn't know nothing about, and there's no good being over-free with your talk.

He got me to walk on a bit with him, and kept talking.

"You didn't buy that nowhere," he says, with a sort of wink.

"What if I didn't ?" I says.
"There's no harm as I know." Well, he kept on with his sort o' winks, and then he says, "Got any _queer_ to put round ?"' At this point Jack lowered his voice to a whisper and looked timorously towards the door.
'You know what he meant, Bob ?' Bob nodded and became reflective.
'Well, I didn't say nothing.' pursued Bartley, 'but the chap stuck to me.

"A fair price for a fair article," he says.