I suggests (T. T. T. 159). I answers ( » 170). They sits ( » 125). I comes ( » 126). You comes ( » 125). I says ( » 133). I asks ( » 143). I likes (Sketches 194). I thinks ( » 201). I does (Sketches 194). She don’t ( » 194). ’E don’t ( » 199). Things as gets lost (T. T. T. 195). They wasn’t ( » 136). There’s no wages ( » 228). It don’t ( » 251). One don’t ( » 218). It aren’t (Novel Notes 163). _Past._ I see = I saw (T. T. T. 197). » » (Three Men In A Boat 81). (The common anomalous form _I seed_ is not to be found in Jerome.) I give = I gave (Sketches 201). I gived = » (Novel Notes 155). I win = I won (Tommy And Co. 99). I comed = I came (Woodb. Farm 56). _Perfect Participle._ Took = taken (T. T. T. 197 + 201 + 140). writ = written ( » 158). _Present Participle._ The Present Participles preceded by a pleonastic _-a_ are very numerous. a-coming (T. T. T. 133). a-pecking ( » 141). a-siffing ( » » ). a-going (Sketches 196). a-collecting ( » 200). a-blowing (Three Men On The Bummel 18). Etc., etc. _To Be._ _It wur_ instead of _it was_ is _dialectic_ or _vulgar_. The samples I have found in Jerome (Three Men in a Boat 221, Woodb. Farm 8 + 10 + 56) are obviously all dialectic. The uncommon form _warn’t_ instead of _wasn’t_ occurs in Woodb. Farm (p. 8, 1), but is evidently also dialectic. Of the common anomalous form _they’s_ instead of _they are_ there is no example in Jerome. _To Have._ _Have not_ and _has not_ are regularly transformed into _ain’t_. I _ain’t_ got a bloomin’ sixpence on me. (Sketches 128. 12.) _’E ain’t_ never been his old self since then. (Sketches 201. 3.) Etc. (_Ain’t_ = am not, are not, is not, is _colloquial_.) _Pronouns._ The abbreviated form _’em_ (for _them_, Middle-Engl. _hem_) is very common in Jerome, as in ordinary easy conversation among all classes. The ordinary confusion of _I_ and _me_ appears in a few instances. Just as you or _me_ would swear at the missus. (T. T. T. 128. 17.) In another twenty minutes _me_ and young M. were in the carriage. (T. T. T. 195. 7.) _Me_ instead of _myself_ is _archaic_, but occurs in vulgar language also. It is no use fixing _me_ down to any quiet calling. (T. T. T. 172. 12.) _Uncultivated young man._ _You_ is very often corrupted into _yer_ or _ye_. I do the tips, _yer_ know. (T. T. T. 131. 20.) Any man could look at _ye_ and hate _ye_. (P. Kelver 32. 11.) Etc. _Them_ is sometimes confused with _those_: