ABSTRACT

Oh well when I come...when she come up an' come in the room where I was to we'll say there were...1 was in bed by meself. I was shit from head to toe. Mother gone. — Well there was a outcry made then about me MOTHER gone. (Other words) she couldn't be found. At tat...that time _ there was a landlord — a (feller) who used to come round every year collectin his fee. Well [coughs] — me uncle took me then. Father passed...give...an'give me over to me uncle. An' he wrote down a long letter _ a letter we'll say an' give un _ not to give un.. .give me before I was the age o' twenty-one

♦machine *[Int: Mm. Go on. Just want to see if it's runnin out. Okay.] noise An' uh _ my father took it hard an' died. Well I was uh.. .he told me

uncle to give me all the education that uh...that I could...that I could get. An' not _ give me this letter before I was th' age o' twenty-one, well when I got...one day I went in to me dinner he come out wi' this letter. Give...give me. Well I sat down (at) the table (the once). I opened un you know an' read down this long letter by...by an' by I seen _ I had a uncle in London. “Oh” I says “I got er...a...uncle over in London eh?”