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"Then keep your elbow to yourself"

"'Cod! I never see such a hot-headed cove!"

"Nor I a more bad-tempered one"

This altercation had taken place as ayed to and fro in the

crowd, fro chiefly to the

dexterous use of the man's bony elbows, until we presently found

ourselves in a veritable jungle of carts and wagons of all kinds

and sorts, where we stopped, facing each other

"I' cove, as you'd be short-tempered if

you been shied at by your feller-man from your youth up," said

the man

"What do you mean by 'shied at'?"

"What I sez!--some perfessions is easy, and some is 'ard--like

mine"

"And what is yours?"

"I'er-head' then,--blacks h a 'ole, and lets 'ear--a big 'un--them as don't--don't!"