"Here's something to eat, poor boy," says Guster.
"Thank'ee, mum," says Jo.
"Are you hungry?"
"Jist!" says Jo.
"What's gone of your father and your mother, eh?"
Jo stops in the middle of a bite and looks petrified. For this orphan charge of the Christian saint whose shrine was at Tooting has patted him on the shoulder, and it is the first time in his life that any decent hand has been so laid upon him.
"I never know'd nothink about 'em," says Jo.

"Here's something to eat, poor boy," says Guster.
"Thank'ee, mum," says Jo.
"Are you hungry?"
"Jist!" says Jo.
"What's gone of your father and mother, eh?"
Jo stops in the middle of a bite and looks petrified. For Guster has patted him on the shoulder, and it is the first time in his life that any decent hand has been so laid upon him.
"I never know'd nothink about 'em," says Jo.
