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Two o' them, as I live; and the biggest kind they be. Slash my timbers if I iver see such a pair! They have fins like lug-sails. Look! the pilot's gone to guide 'em. Hang me if they bean't a-comin' this way!" William had looked in the direction pointed out by his companion. He saw the two great dorsal fins standing several feet above the water.

"I tell you what, sir; for another sixpence I'd 've sworn you'd never guv' me the paper at all; and so I will now, if it bean't too late; sixpence or no sixpence. What do I care? d them." "Dan!" "And why shouldn't I? They hain't got brains enough among them to winny the truth from the lies, not among the lot of 'em.

"And so, Jack, you're safe this time; only you must not disobey your mother again, for the sake of donkeys or anything else." "No, sir thank'ee, sir," sobbed Jack, humbly. "You be a gentleman Mr. March bean't he said it served me right for getting under his horses." "Hold thy tongue!" said Jack's mother, sharply; for the latch of the opposite door was just then lifted, and a lady stood there.

Speed-the-Plough lurched round on his elbow and regarded him indifferently. "D'ye call that doctrin'? He bean't al'ays, or I shoo'n't be scrapin' my heels wi' nothin' to do, and, what's warse, nothin' to eat. Why, look heer. Luck's luck, and bad luck's the con-trary. Varmer Bollop, t'other day, has's rick burnt down. Next night his gran'ry's burnt. What do he tak' and go and do?

Morrison leaned forward over the bar and his brow tightened: "Guess I've hearn of you before horse-trader, bean't ye?" "Yes; if you ever want a good horse" and his small, black eyes glittered "let me know." "Got 'bout all I kin afford," replied Morrison; "twenty to work on my job now." Again Morrison looked at him; this time from his scrubby black beard to his dust-covered shoes.

"An' 'ow am I to know that, 'ow am I to be sure o' that; an' you wi' your throat all torn wi' devil's claws an' demon's clutches it bean't nat'ral Old Amos says so, an' I sez so." "Pure folly!" said I, plucking the iron from the fire, and beginning to beat and shape it with my hammer, but presently, remembering the strange man who had spoken my name, I looked up, and then I saw that he was gone.

At the sound of Sal's voice the hunchback appeared from behind the cart, and his wife dragged Jan towards him, crying, "Here's our dear son! our pretty, clever little son." "I bean't your son!" cried poor Jan, desperately. "My mother's dead."

"Where away, lad?" demanded Gaff, rising and shading his eyes from the sun, as he looked in the direction indicated. "There, down i' the cove; bottom up among the rocks; stove in, I daresay. Don't 'ee see'd, faither?" "Ay, lad; and mayhap it bean't stove in; leastwise we'll go see."

'Why, dang me if it bean't Luke Damerel! exclaimed the rustic, slapping the thighs of his leather breeches; 'how main glad the folks will be to see 'un! I know what I'll do. Whereupon Roger trudged across the fields towards the church.

I am an orphan; my parents I never saw. And tell me for this strange resemblance between us almost overpowers me do yours live?" "Whoy," was the reply, "old Tom Prescot and his woif be alive; and they zay as how they be my vather and moother, and I zuppose they be; but zoom cast up to them that they bean't."