altogether, an poor lasses they
nivver went to bed all neet, for fear o' theives braikin in an
stailin--an next mornin they nivver oppen'd th' shop, but went straight
away to Miss Simpson's and bowt her shop, stock an gooid will, an all,
an paid brass daan for it.

They've nivver luk'd behund em since, tho' its mooar nor two year sin
this happened; tho' Rosa's gooan aght o' bisniss, becoss shoo's wed a
clerk in a bank; an Louisa's baan to be married at Kursmiss to a chap at
has a shop next door, an they're baan to break a door thro' an roll both
shops into one.

On th' furst ov October ivvery year as sooin as th' Clock Almanack comes
aght, they booath on em run an buy th' first copy at ivver they can lig
ther hands on, for th' varry seet ov th' red an yoller cover maks em
think o'th happiest moment at ivver they had i' ther lives.

It isn't often at ther's soa mich brass faand inside a Clock Almanack,
but ther's monny an monny a paands worth ov innocent amusement to be
faand in its pages, an they're odd kind o' fowk at connot thoil to spend
a threepeny bit on one, or think ther brass is wasted.

Sammywell's Reformation.

"Mally! If tha cannot scale th' foir baght makkin that din, let it
alooan!"

"When aw want thee to tell me ha to scale a foir aw'll ax thi! Aw should
think aw've lived long enuff to know that mich. It mun awther be scaled
or it'll goa aght."

"Then let it goa aght! If tha maks a racket like that agean tha'll goa
aght whativver comes o'th foir, or if tha doesn't aw'll pitch thi on th'
top on it! Oh my poor heead! aw wish tha had it for hawf an haar, then
tha'd know summat."

"Awm nooan soa sewer abaat that! Tha's had it ivver sin aw knew thi an
its varry little at tha knows!"

"Aw know it'll drive me aght o' mi senses if it doesn't stop."

"Well, tha willn't have far to goa, that's one blessin. Bless mi life!
its nobbut a touch o'th tooithwark."

"Nobbut a touch isn't it? If tha'd to be touched i'th same way tha
wodn't live five minnits. As it happens, it isn't th' tooithwark at all,
it's th' newralgy aw've getten into mi heead."

"Well, be thankful at tha's getten summat in it at last, for its been
empty long enuff, an that owt to be fain whether its newralgy or
oldralgy. Aw've noa patience wi thi, for if ther's th' leeast thing ails
thi tha upsets all th' haase. When awr Hepsabah's Jerrymier had it he
hardly made a muff, an he did have it wi a vengence, poor child."

"Awd like