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A native of Lancashire would have said 'serve' instead of 'sarra." "Well, that's varra queer; for I've bin a lang time away from my awn country. But, whereivver do ye belang to, as ye're so bowd wi' me?" said she, smiling, and turning over a cake which was baking upon the oven. I told her that I was born a few miles from Manchester.
Lezzard died," said Phoebe. "What'll faither think then?" Will laughed bitterly. "I'll see a few's dabbed up on his awn damned outer walls, if I've got to put 'em theer myself. An' as to the lists, I'll make 'em this very night. Ban't my way to let the dust fall upon a job marked for doin'. To-night I'll draw the items." "Us was gwaine to stay along with 'e, Will," said his mother.
"He'm a gert man, wi' his awn way o' doin' things, like all gert men," he burst out; "an' ban't for any man to call un in question. He knawed the hard stuff I was made of and let me bide accordin'. An' now get your bonnets on, the lot of 'e, for I'm gwaine this instant moment to Monks Barton." They followed him in a breathless procession, as he hurried across the farmyard.
She used to say, "Lawd, chile, you don't know how soovin' it is to jest bust out awn 'casions lake dese!" Happy negroes! Happy children, who can "bust out" when their feelings get the better of them! Civilization robs us of many of our acutest pleasures. That night on the way home from the theatre I learned something.
It is eith till, that the awn self will. It is good mows that fills the wemb. It is na time to stoup when the head is off. It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all. It will come in an hour, that will not come in a year. If thou do no ill, do no ill like. If he steal not my kail, break not my dike. If he may spend meikle, put the more to the fire.
A ship was in the offin'. She had distress signals flyin'. He could get neebody te man a boat but women; the men wadn't hev onythin' te dee wiv him, so his awn wife, Ailsie's Jenny, Nanny Dent, and Peggy Story went.
You shut your mouth and go home-long, an' mind your awn business, an' keep out o' the game preserves. Law's law, as you'm like to find sooner'n most folks." This pointed allusion to certain rumours concerning the labourer's present way of life angered Bonus not a little, but it also silenced him. "Law's law, as you truly say, Will Blanchard," answered Mr. Blee, "an' theer it do lie in a nutshell.
"Stand aside!" thundered Eric. "Come awn," soothed Irish Mike. "Not with the lady here, Eric, b'y." "Patty, I cannot let you go! I will shoot the beast on sight." "That would not vindicate my father's honor. Hush, he is coming. I must remember that I am a Laughton." Eric turned to stare moodily out the dusty window. "There goes the cattle man with his followers and his strong-box.
Us must play a hidden game, an' fight this Grimbal chap as he fought me behind back. Listen; to-day fortnight you an' me 'm gwaine to be married afore the registrar to Newton Abbot. He 'm my awn Uncle Ford, as luck has it, an' quite o' my way o' thinkin' when I told him how 't was, an' that Jan Grimbal was gwaine to marry you against your will.
Then his voice changed and he whispered: "Port, my son, 'cause of that 'pon the waters. Caan't 'e see they bubbles a glimmerin' on the foam? That's the last life of my lil Tom; an' the foam-wreath's put theer by God's awn right hand. He'm saved, if 'twasn't that down at the bottom o' the sea a man be twenty fathom nearer hell than them as lies in graaves ashore.
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