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However, I soon scrambled aat o' th' dike, and after a good bit o' trying I maanted agean and set off on th' road; but I hadn't gone far before I faan some'at wor wrang wi' th' bridle. I couldn't guide th' beast roight somehaa, so I felt abaat to try if I could foind aat what it wor, and behold I had gotten th' bridle all on one soide.
Used Up. As time went on, and year after year was added to his age, Little Abe began to show, by unmistakable signs, that he was becoming an old man; and although his lively temperament enabled him to hold up against his infirmities for some time, the day came when he confessed he was an old man and stricken in years; he began to speak of himself as being "used up," "worn aat," "done for," and the like.
By Guy, if it hedn't bin for Oliver o' Deaf Martha's I should ha' said it wur hevin' a prayer-meetin' i' th' snow. What's brought owd Amos aat wi' Moses to say naught o' th' dog? Just then an oath reached the ears of the listening men. 'No prayer-meeting, Malachi, said Mr. Penrose, laughing.
I can remember when we wor just a few, but we agreed to pray for a revival, and gie th' Lord no rest until we should mak' His arm bare amang us. We started a prayer-meeting on Sunday mornings at five o'clock to th' minute, and they that worn't there at time should be locked aat. Well, yo' know, I wor' baan to be at that meeting.
Then I coome across th' old flute, and it seemed to say, "I'll help thee agen." "Nay, owd brid," I said, "tha cornd. It's noan brass this time, it's mi lad." And th' owd flute seemed to say, "Try me." So I tuk it up, and put it to mi lips and blew yi, aat of a sad heart, Mr. Penrose but it wor reet. Th' owd flute gi' me back mi prayer grace for grace, as yo' parsons say, whatever yo' mean by't.
Naa, if th' travelling praacher had come to-noight, he moight easily ha' praached a much better sermon than I can, but I'll defy him or onybody else to foind a grander text than this; it's a raight un, and it's your own fault if you doan't get some good aat on't: if the Lord had thought you needed it, He would have sent you somebody better than me, for He will supply all your need."
Leet it, Lord, and dunnot put it aat till he geds through to wheere they've no need o' candles, becose Thaa gies them th' leet o' Thysel. The prayer over, every eye was turned to the boy, on whose face there had broken a great light a light from above. The royal repose of death reigned over the features of little Job as his mother entered the kitchen of the Granny Houses Farm.
"We're both aat of harness naa, thaa sees," said Abe, "and we'll sooin be at haam. I want the' to tell them I'm coming, and shall n't be long after the'." Everyone thought that Abe would live the longer of the two, but he gained his prize first, passing away a little before his brother, and now they both "rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."
'Then yo've yerd naught abaat Moses Fletcher? 'Nowe; nor I durnd want. When yo' cornd yer owt good abaat a mon yo'd better yer naught at all. 'But I've summat good to tell thee abaat owd Moses. 'Nay, lad, I think nod. Th' Etheop cornd change his skin, nor th' leopard his spots. 'But Moses hes ged'n aat o' his skin, and changed it for a gradely good un and o'.
An old woman sitting there caught the figure in a moment, and responded energetically, "Maa th' Lord tak' th' dishcloth and wipe some aat here t'-noight!" "Amen," exclaimed "the Bishop." Abe's remarks on Psalm xxxiv. 8, "O taste and see that the Lord is good," etc., were very characteristic.
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