Brave constable has 'arf a quid's worth out of an infuriated ruffin!' My hat! won't your missis be proud when you take her to see that bloomin' film ?" "Move on, now, move on!" said Collins, recovering his dignity, and asserting it with a vim.

"Look here, cabby, I don't take it kind of you to laugh like that; they had you just as bad as they had me.

Blow that Frenchy! She might have tipped me off before I made such an ass of myself.

I don't say that I'd have done it so natural if I had known, but--Hullo! What's that?
Blowed if it ain't that blessed whistle again, and another crowd a-pelting this way; and--no!--yes, by Jupiter!--a couple of Scotland Yard chaps with 'em.

My hat! what do you suppose that means ?" He knew in the next moment.