He says he has got interest in London at the Horse Guards, and will get the application of the lord lieutenant backed up there; so I hope that in a couple of months at latest it will all be settled." "Oi hope so, oi am sure, vor oi be main sick of this.

However, oi can hold on for another couple of months; they know anyhow as it ain't from cowardice as I doan't join them.

I fowt Jack Standfort yesterday and licked un; though, as you see, oi 'ave got a rare pair of black eyes today.

If oi takes one every Saturday it's only eight more to lick, and oi reckon oi can do that." "I wish I could help you, Bill," Ned said: "if father had been alive I am sure he would have let you have a little money to take you away from here and keep you somewhere until it is time for you to enlist; but you see I can do nothing now." "Doan't you go vor to trouble yourself aboot me, Maister Ned.

Oi shall hold on roight enow.