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But now they tumbled out all headlong, pigs below and pigs above, pigs point-blank and pigs across, pigs courant and pigs rampant, but all alike prepared to eat, and all in good cadence squeaking. "Tak smarl boocket, and bale un out; wad 'e waste sich stoof as thic here be?"
"You, young Tom Tallington, pass me that theer boocket." Tom lifted the bucket, which stood at the side, covered over with some old pieces of netting, and placed it between Dave's knees in the spot from which he removed the basket. "Now you can both hev a look," he said with a sly glance from one to the other. "Hey, little boys, then; hey, little boys: back yow go!"
"I went right across to Ealand, and then walked four mile with my net and that boocket to Brader's Mill on little Norley stream and ketched 'em theer, and carried 'em all the way back to the boat four mile. For, I says, I should like they boys to ketch a big pike or two, and gudgeons is best baits I know." "Better than roach and rudd, Dave?" "Ay, or perch, or tench, or anything.
"Get a boocket, Jacob, lad." The next minute he was getting the newly-made circular net with its pipe-leads from where it hung over the rafters of his shed, and striding down to a suitable shallow where a shoal of small fish could be seen, he ranged the net upon his arm, holding the cord tightly, and, giving himself a spin round, threw the net so that it spread out flat, with the pipe-leads flying out centrifugally, and covering a good deal of space, the leads driving the fish into the centre.
'Tak smarl boocket, and bale un out; wad 'e waste sich stoof as thic here be? So Betty set me to feed the pigs, while she held the lanthorn; and knowing what she was, I saw that she would not tell me another word until all the pigs were served.
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