human
That your'n,
gpt
Boy or gel?
human
S'pose you'll say I'm a bleedin' liar, but I 'ad a kid as putty as that onct--puttier. It was a boy. The nobbiest little b---- as you ever come acrost. Your'n is putty, but it ain't in it with my Billie, not by a long chalk.
gpt
Lawst 'im, she said.
human
Used to give sixpence a week to the woman what 'ad 'alf the 'ouse with me to look after 'im while I was workin' at the fact'ry. But what did the bleedin' b---- do? Blimey, if she didn't let 'im get run over by the dray from the brewery.
gpt
Killed?
human
More'n four, she said.
gpt
Just old enough to run a arrand. It was crool. Hit me out, I can tell you. That kid was all I had. Apple o' my eye, in a manner of speakin'. When it was gone there wasn't much encouragement, was there? The Favver from the Mission came jawin' as 'ow Jesus 'ad taken 'im to 'Imself. Rot! When they put 'im down in old Bow I didn't care no more for nothin'. Monse and monse I walked about night and day, and the bleedin' coppers was allus on to me. They got their own way at last. I took the pneumonier and was laid up at the London. And when I got out I didn't go back to the fact'ry neither.
human
What did you do?
gpt
Do? Don't you _know_?
human
Look here--are you a good gel?
gpt
Yes.
human
I b'lieve you. Some gels is. S'elp me Gawd I don't know how they done it, though.