John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful.

A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.

We do things together and we lepak together quite a bit (hey, this is the solution to the lepak problem: the family that lepaks together stays together).

Why, she married that oldest boy of little Ike's, a moughty well-turned, civil, workin' boy, an' his folks give 'im a heifer an' some house[-]plunder, an' her mam give 'em a bed an' a nice lot uv quilts, an' they've set up fer theirselves.