He said:
"She'd never noticed if it hadn't been for Sid. Confound it! sometimes
she
sews it
with white, and sometimes she sews it with black. I wish to
geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other-I can't keep the run of 'em. But
I bet you I'll lam Sid for that. I'll learn him!"
He was not the Model Boy of the village.