"Yo' see," he would observe pathetically, "it isn't what yo' sup yersen, it's treatin' other folk. Yo' go into th' 'Hangin' Gate,' we'll say, an' yo' ca' for a pint o' drink, an' yo' sit yo' dahn an' fill yo'r pipe, an' yo' begin to feel at peace wi' all mankind. Then a chap comes in an' says, 'Hullo, Jim, is that ta? How are ta, lad? Aw hannot seen thee this mony a day. An' how's thi owd mother? Eh! aw remember her afore yo' were born, afore 'oo wedded thi feyther, come to that, an' a likelier wench nivver stepped this side Stanedge!' Then he looks at yo'r pot an' says he'd ha' axed yo' to have a pint wi' him, but he just leets to be shortish hissen. Nah what can yo' do, aw ax yo' as man to man but ax him to ha' a pint wi' yo', an' ha' one yersen for company's sake? Then another chap comes in an' sets him dahn bi th' side on yo', an' tells yo' both to sup an' ha' a drink wi' him, an' yo' don't like to throw his kindness i' his face, let alone doin' an ill turn to th' landlord. Then in course yo'll ha' to put yo'r hands dahn for another go for th' three on yo', an' when yo'n had that yo've just abaht come to th' conclusion yo might as weel mak' a neet on it, an' start afresh wi' yo'r good resolutions another time. So aw see there's nowt for it but keepin' aht o' th' publics altogether, if ivver aw mean to ha' a nest-egg laid by." "And what has come over you lately, Jim, to make you so keen on saving money." Jim eyed me sideways. "Doesn't ta know? Oh, well, tha'll happen find aht sooin' enough. I' th' meantime yo' may suppose 'at aw intend when aw dee to fahnd a 'sylum for loonatics, or perhaps aw'm thinkin' a' bequeaving a legacy for th' endowment o' Powl Moor Chapel. Yo' may be sewer, whativver it is, it'll be summat 'at ca's for a seet o' brass. Aw've getten three pun' nineteen an' sevenpence farden teed up i' a stockin' fooit, an' i' a varry little time aw'st look aht for a sootable investment." Another symptom, that excited in me a languid speculation was the fact that Jim, about this time, embarked upon a determined effort to reform his speech with the result that much concentration was needed to follow his discourse This is a sample of his speech at this painful period of his progress in self improvement: "Well, aw meean--that is, I mean 'well,' if we're--aw mean, I meean 'mean'--'we are' bun--that's to say I mean goin'--drat it, aw've dropped th' 'g,' as Ruth said--aw mean 'going' to th' sarvice I mean th' 'service' to-neet--theer aw go agen, aw mean 'to-night'--it's time we donned ussen, aw mean rid ussen up--no'h, that won't do, nother--dressed ussen--no, that's noan it, nother--aw mean 'dressed ourselves.'"