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Chapter 12

very reverend Dr Forrest, Dean of Worcester, eh? Deaths. * Bristow, at Whitehall lane, London: * Carr, Stoke Newington of gastritis and heart disease: * Cockburn, at the Moat house, Chepstow⁠ ⁠…

―I know that fellow, says Joe, from bitter experience.

―Cockburn. Dimsey, wife of Davie Dimsey, late of the admiralty Miller, Tottenham, aged eightyfive: Welsh, June 12, at 35 Canning Street, Liverpool, Isabella Helen.

How’s that for a national press, eh, my brown son? How’s that for Martin Murphy, the Bantry jobber?

―Ah, well, says Joe, handing round the boose. Thanks be to God they had the start of us. Drink that, citizen.

―I will, says he, honourable person.

―Health, Joe, says I. And all down the form.

Ah! Ow! Don’t be talking! I was blue mouldy for the want

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