Part 2 (1/2)
”'Tain't true, Master Don,” cried Je me”
”Now I appeal to Master Don: was it me, sir, as was late? There's the tea ready, and the bread and butter cut, and the watercresses turning li at the s'ri, but there never was such a place as this for flies”
”It's the sugar, Sally,” said Don, who had sauntered aimlessly in with Jem, and as he stared round the neat little kitchen with the pleasant meal all ready, he felt as if he should like to stay to tea instead of going hoar, sir, I know; and you'd think it would sweeten some people's temper, but it don't”
”Which if it's --”
”Which I aru'larly worried your dinner, and all on account of a button”
”Well, then, you should sew one on When a man's married he does expect to find buttons on his clean shi+rts”
”Yes, and badly enough you want 'e 'em that sticky as you do”
”I can't help that; it's only sugar”
”Only sugar indeed! And if it was my last words I'd say it--there _was_ a button on the neck”
”Well, I know that,” cried Je on, if it coood, Mas' Don?”
”Oh, don't askthey'd ask hied it off, Master Don”
”I didn't”
”You did, Jeravate me”
”Wasn't half sewn on”
”It was I can't sew your buttons on with copper wire”
”You two are just like a girl and boy,” cried Don ”Here you have everything coood place, and you're always quarrelling”
”Well, it's his fault, sir”
”No, sir, it's her'n”
”It's both your faults, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves”
”I'm not,” said Sally; ”and I wish I'd never seen him”
”And I'm sure I wish the same,” said Jem despondently ”I never see such a te little Dutch doll of a wo on”
”There, Jem, now you've made your poor little wife cry You are the most discontented fellow I ever saw”