Well, she's been dead a year, so you'll soon hear of Horace Baxter taking notice." "I heard he was taking notice already," said Captain Jim, winking at Gilbert.

"Wasn't he up to your place one Sunday lately, with his funeral blacks on, and a boiled collar ?" "No, he wasn't.

And he needn't come neither.

I could have had him long ago when he was fresh.

I don't want any second-hand goods, believe ME.