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Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by [pseud.] Cuthbert Bede
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"You've a deal of tea and coffee, sir," she said, keeping time by
curtseys. "Which it's a great blessin' to have a mother. And not to
be left dissolute like some gentlemen. And tea


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and coffee is what I mostly lives on. And mortial dear it is to poor
folks. And a package the likes of this, sir, were a blessin' I should
never even dream on."

"Well, then," said Verdant, in a most benevolent mood, "you can take
one of the packages for your trouble."

Upon this, Mrs. Tester appeared to be greatly overcome. "Which I
once had a son myself," she said. "And as fine a young man as you
are, sir. With a strawberry mark in the small of his back. And
beautiful red whiskers, sir; with a tendency to drink. Which it were
his rewing, and took him to be enlisted for a sojer. When he went
across the seas to the West Injies. And was took with the yaller
fever, and buried there. Which the remembrance, sir, brings on my
spazzums. To which I'm an hafflicted martyr, sir. And can only be
heased with three spots of brandy on a lump of sugar. Which your
good mother, sir, has put a bottle of brandy. Along with the jam and
the clean linen, sir. As though a purpose for my complaint. Ugh!
oh!"

And Mrs. Tester forthwith began pressing and thumping her sides in
such a terrific manner, and appeared to be undergoing such internal
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