He was one o' these sort of chaps as wouldn't be helped, you see; and as soon as the lads on the pier heared him say as his boat should jump over the rock-Lep it, you know-they began to stare, as if they expected something was coming."
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn
I should think there was, for just as the boat comes up to the rock, she acts just like a Chrishtun dog, or a horse might when her master wanted her to-what does she do but rises at the rock to Lep right over her, but the water seemed to fail just then, and down she come sodge!"
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn
It costs less; an', whin 'tis done, a man can Lep aboord a sthreet ca-ar, an' come to his family an' sleep it off.
"Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen"
Finley Peter Dunne
