I loved doin' it.

But all the things 'e couldn't do at all, like drawin' me likeness, or cuttin' out a blouse for me, 'e was forever tryin' to do." She spoke of Sherrie as a naturalist would speak of a new animal, gradually finding out the pretty and amusing ways of the creature.
"I called 'im Sherrie because thet's what 'e called me.

A French word it was, 'e ses, meaning 'dearie,' as it were.

'E was a reel gent, was Sherrie.

I as't 'im once why 'e took up with a woman like me, instead of with a reel young lady.