Hattic

"I know nothing more, doctor, but just they're going off to Australia," said the landlady, mournfully; "and Miss has started packing the big boxes as have been in the hattic since ever they come: they're going off back where they come from—that's all as I know."

“Well, I don’t call that a home, living up in a hattic along o’ old Mother Billson.”

It’s from the hattic winder, I see ’em with the moon, if w’ant the lightenin’ a glanshin’ on their ’orrid faces as is never shaved nor washed, and it’s bin my dream from the years of unsuspectious hinfancy, as is come for to pass now in the days of my womanhood, with dead bodies carryin’ too, w’ich is wuss.

“We consider it a very good hattic, sir,” said the little maid, somewhat hurt by the last remark.

“There is a hattic, sir,” said the maid, “but it is ’igh up, and so very small, that I fear—” “Let me see the attic,” said the captain, promptly.