But at this season puddin' thieves generally go south-east, owing to the price of onions. — Norman Lindsay

After that they had boiled jam roll and apple dumpling, as the fancy took them, for if you wanted a change of food from the Puddin', all you had to do was to whistle twice and turn the basin round.

Don't you know that nothin' gives a man greater remorse than havin' his face punched, his toes trod on, and eggs rubbed in his hair?

Well, if this ain't enough to dumbfound a codfish.