“I wear…”
Stave 1
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
“There was a…”
Stave 2
“There was a boy singing a christmas carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something: that’s all”
“Might have called him…”
Stave 2
“Might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life”
“May I…”
Stave 4
“May I sponge away the writing on this stone?”
“A great many…”
Stave 5
“A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you”