Parson : " Ah, Smithers, it's all very well for you to say you have not been" drinking again since lunch, for I know very well you have. I've seen too much of this sort of thing, Smithers, to be easily deceived." Smithers (taking refuge in compliments, as is tho wont of Cockney suburban gardeners in similar emergencies) : "Lor, sir, whyl think I moight say to yhoo what my oxud guvnor used to say to me. ' Will,' says 'c, ' Will, it's noa use you tellin' noa lies to an ould loier like me.'"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3020, 1 March 1881, Page 3
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