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Here Sam broke into a vigorous stream of profanity. "Ay, he's improvin' A doot," said Mack. "Let us be going." "'Ello! It was Mr. Wigglesworth on his way home from the mill. "Why, bless my living lights, if it bean't Samuel. Who's been a beatin' of you, Sammy?" His eye swept the crowd. "'Ave you been at my lad?" he asked, stepping toward the young man, whom Annette named Mack.
You know very well that my chest is weak, and yet I have to go hallooing all over the place after you. Now look here, have you got that fat pony of yours in the yard?" "Yis, Squire, the pony is here, and if so be as it is fat it bean't for the want of movement." "Very well, then, take this letter," and he handed him an epistle sealed with a tremendous seal, "take this letter to Mr.
The Ploughman pulled at his ear again, looked slowly all round the field, and, finally, shook his head. "Well," said he, "I bean't." "But why not?" His eye roved slowly up from my boots to the buttons on my coat. "Them be fine buttons!" said he. "Do you think so?" "Look like silver!" "They are silver," said I. "Lord!" he exclaimed, "you wouldn't part wi' they buttons, I suppose?" "That depends!"
As he came up to where I sat upon the gate, the Ploughman stopped, and, wiping the glistening moisture from his brow, nodded good-humoredly. "A fine morning!" said I. "So it be, sir, now you come to mention it, it do be a fine day surely." "You, at least seem happy," said I. "Happy?" he exclaimed, staring. "Yes," said I. "Well, I bean't." "And why not?"
"Lord! theer bean't two other such fine, up-standin', likely-lookin' chaps in all the South Country as you two chaps be no, nor such smiths! it du warm my old 'eart to look at 'ee. Puts me in mind o' what I were myself ages an' ages ago.
I bean't agoing to let him be hung for this job. A loife for a loife, saes oi; so tell him to keep up his heart." There was no signature to the paper. Ned looked up with delight in his face. "But won't the letter clear me, Mr. Wakefield? It shows that it was not me, but some one else who did it." "No, Sankey, pray do not cherish any false hopes on that ground.
"I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth." By the which he meant that Humphreys had the reputation of being rather harsh in his dealings with his workpeople.
Then Morris, again using the poker, pointed upwards, showing that the Darvels were still in their allotted abode upstairs. "You're early out, Muster Crawley," said Morris, and then he went on with his fire. "Drat the sticks, if they bean't as wet as the old 'un hisself. Get up, old woman, and do you do it, for I can't. They wun't kindle for me, nohow."
"By keepin' on'ard," said Ben, "we'll be more like to come in sight o' somethin', if there be anythin' abroad. Besides, if we lay here like a log, we'll still be in danger o' them ruffians driftin' down on us. Ye know they be a win'ard, an' ha' got theer sail set, that is, if they bean't gone back to the sparmacety, which I dar say they've done.
If my pa IS unfortunate and trod down by henemies, we're not going to be basely crowed and conquered over by you and 'Tilda. 'Noa! replied John bluntly, 'thou bean't. Tak' thy oath o' thot. Think betther o' us, Fanny.
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