human
I don't want to steal a march on the regular custom,
gpt
It's first come hereabouts, but you'd better not leave it too late. Anyway you'll get a shake-up when the four o'clock patrol comes on.
human
How's that?
gpt
Always give 'em a shake-up at four o'clock. Don't make many odds. You just get up and sit down again. Takes the cold out of your bones if it does nothing else.
human
I suppose, said Richard,
gpt
I couldn't doss down on that board that's perched on the two iron standards up towards Hyde Park Comer. It has a single room touch that I rather fancy.
human
I couldn't let you, he said,
gpt
Then what's it for anyway?
human
Don't rightly know. They do say it was for the garden carriers to rest their packs on when they was coming up to market from the outlying farms. And again I been told that they laid the corpses on it what was being carried to the plague pits when there was one of these 'ere epidemics in London. Long while back that 'ud be.
gpt
Hm, said Richard,
human
You goes without.
gpt
Well, there's a damn thing,