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"No; how should I?" said his passenger; "I didn't know there was such a place in the world a month ago." The skipper looked incredulous once more. "An' now ye goin' there to live!" he exclaimed; "why, there ben't but one house there fit fur such as you, an' 'tain't there ye're bound, not by a long shot!" "But one house! Whose is it?" cried Noll, eagerly.
But now that can't be, for the woman's gone to Satan these three months. . . . An' my missus gone too poor tender heart an' lookin' down on me, that was rash enough to bet her sixpence on it, an' now no means to pay up." "Who was the other?" demanded Nicky-Nan, frowning over the letter, his face flushing as he frowned. "You're goin' to read it to me, ben't you?"
You'd better charge double ef yer goin' to carry him home, 'cause it's two days' work fur one man ter tend to his talk. I ben't goin' to do't fur nothin'." "They ben't glad to see each other, eh, Jack?" said Ben; "wish there was some prospect o' taking t'other home, too." "I sh'u'd be 'feared the 'Gull''d founder," said Mr. Snape.
It seems such, anyhow; though, to be sure, it is the blasts of winter that find out the weak places both in house and body." "It ben't the wind touch them" he said; "they be safe enough from the wind. It be the wet, sir. There ben't much snow in these parts; but when it du come, that be very bad for them, poor things!" Could it be that he was harping on the old theme again?
"The schooner has tacked, sir." A dead silence; then giving the glass a swing, and driving the joints into each other, with such vehemence as if he would have broken them in pieces, he exclaimed, "She is after us, so sure as I ben't a niger."
"A deal of money's made by just looking after the article at the fountain's head." "You may say that." "Do you look to be making great dealings in produce up the country?" "Why that, I expect, is difficult to know." "I calculate you'll find the markets changeable these times?" "No markets ben't very often without changing." "Why, that's right down true.
It's when you don't feel safe yourself that you feel other people ben't safe." "But," I said and such confidence I had from what she had already uttered, that I was sure the experiment was not a cruel one "some of your sons were drowned for all that you say about their safety." "Well, sir," she answered, with a sigh, "I trust they're none the less safe for that.
"If I had sum 'un to watch here," thought he, "while I takes a turn by the water-side, p'r'aps summat might come out; p'r'aps them as did it ben't gone to church, but will come sneaking round to look on their willany! as they says murderers are always led back to the place where they ha' left the body.
Despite all his Eton finery, he was familiar with peasants, and had the quick eye of one country-born as to country matters. "You don't seem very well off in this village, my man?" said he, knowingly. "Noa; there be a deal of distress here in the winter time, and summer too, for that matter; and the parish ben't much help to a single man."
Don't you know she had six children once, and that she killed every one of them?" "Killed'em she?" "Yes, I heard her tell granny once all about it. She said there was a blight on her house I don't know what that is; but I guess it's something big and heavy and that it fell on every one of her children, as fast as they came, and killed 'em." "Then I'm glad I ben't her child."
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