So I just put in a word, quiet-like, to the Creator." Marie was setting before him such luxuries as she could command.

She nodded encouragingly.
"Go on," she said.

"Tell me!" "Cheddar cheese," he said parenthetically, with an appreciative sniff.
"Hav'n't seen a bit o' that for a long time! Well, then, up comes Mr.
Oscard as cool as a cowcumber, and Mr.Meredith he gives a sort of little laugh and says, 'Open that gate.' Quite quiet, yer know.

No high falutin' and potry and that.

A few minutes before he had been fightin' and cussin' and shoutin', just like any Johnny in the ranks.