Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 7 Page 12

I didn't see; but I didn't say so.

“Well!” Joe pursued, “somebody must keep the pot a biling, Pip, or the pot won't bile, don't you know?”

I saw that, and said so.

“'Consequence, my father didn't make objections to my going to work; so I went to work at my present calling, which were his too, if he would have followed it, and I worked tolerable hard, I assure you, Pip. In time I were able to keep him, and I kep him till he went off in a purple leptic fit.

And it were my intentions to have had put upon his tombstone that, Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his heart.”

Joe recited this couplet with such manifest