Old Georgie's path an' mine crossed more times'n I'm comfy mem'ryin', an' after I'm died^([sic]), no saying' what that fangy devil won't try an' do to me . . . so gimme some mutton an' I'll tell you 'bout our first meetin'. 2004, David Mitchell, “Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 239: