"I thought he lived in London?"

     "Well, he does. Where WOULD he live?"

     "But I thought YOU lived in Sheffield?"

     I see I was up a stump. I had to let on to get choked with a chicken bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again. Then I says:

     "I mean he goes to our church regular when he's in Sheffield. That's only in the summer time, when he comes there to take the sea baths."

     "Why, how you talk--Sheffield ain't on the sea."

     "Well, who said it was?"

     "Why, you did."

     "I DIDN'T nuther."

     "You did!"

     "I didn't."

     "You did."

     "I never said nothing of the kind."

     "Well, what DID you say, then?"