Children knows a lot in the Brown Borough.

'Ow 'e'd noticed the things 'e 'ad with them blindish eyes of 'is, I don't know.

I got to count on that boy no end.
Fair drunk with satisfaction, I use to feel.

Call me a fool if you like, cully, but it was three or four year before I got the idee that there was anythink funny about Elbert.

It was when it begun to look as if the War 'ad come to stop, an' one couldn't look at any boy without countin' up to see 'ow long 'e 'ad before the Army copped 'im.