12/21 But, bless you, I ain't a brigade bloke. I say, though, where's t'other flat; 'im with the eyes ?" "He's away ill," I said. "He's got smallpox, and says he believes he caught it from you." "Get 'long!" replied the boy. I say, 'ave yer seen the old gal about ?" "Your mother? Why ?" "On'y she's a-missin', that's all; but there, she allers turns up, she does, and wipes me to-rights, too." "She was nearly killing you the night we saw you," said I. |