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"Young friend! ". I tries to duck, but miss the bus. / 'E sees me first, an' 'as me by the 'and. / "Young friend! " 'e sez; an' starts to make a fuss / At meetin' me. "Why, this," 'e sez, "is grand! / Events is workin' better than I planned. / It's Providence that I should meet you thus. / You're jist the man," 'e sez, "to make a stand, / An' strive for us.
"Young friend," 'e sez, "allow me to explain / But wot 'e 'as to say too well I knows. / I got the stren'th uv it in Spadgers Lane / Not 'arf an hour before'and, when I goes / To see if I could pick up news uv Rose, / After that dentist let me off the chain. / ("Painless," 'e's labelled. So 'e is, I s'pose. / I 'ad the pain.)