He also wrote to Barney Bill: "You dear old Tory--did you ever dream that ragamuffin little Paul was going to represent you in Parliament?
Get out the dear old 'bus and paint it blue, with 'Paul Savelli forever' in gold letters, and, instead of chairs and mats, hang it with literature, telling what a wonderful fellow P.S.is.

And go through the streets of Hickney Heath with it, and say if you like: 'I knew him when' he was a nipper--that high.' And if you like to be mysterious and romantic you can say: 'I, Barney Bill, gave him his first chance,' as you did, my dear old friend, and Paul's not the man to forget it.

Oh, Barney, it's too wonderful"-- his heart went out to the old man.

"If I get in I will tell you something that will knock you flat.

It will be the realization of all the silly rubbish I talked in the old brickfield at Bludston.