hole; and, glancing fearfully at the capital- O partition, he found that , to his extreme terror, in a precisely similar predicament. Awestricken, his first impulse was to rush to the foreman.
“Sir!” said he, gasping for breath, “I can’t never set up nothing without no o ’s.”
“ What do you mean by that?” growled the foreman, who was in a very ill humor at being kept so late.
“Why, sir, there beant an o in the office, neither a big un nor a little un!”
“What—what the d⸺l has become of all that were in the case?”
“I don’t know, sir,” said the boy, “but one of them ere G’zette devils is bin prowling ’bout here all night, and I spect he’s gone and cabbaged ’em every one.”
“Dod rot him! I haven’t a doubt of it,” replied the foreman, getting purple with rage “but I tell you what you do, Bob, that’s a good boy—you