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David had more than half a mind not to answer, but at last he jerked out fiercely, 'Waitin for th' second post, fust; then t' donkey fell down half a mile out o' t' town, an th' things were spilt. There was nobody about, an' I had a job to get 'un up at a'. Reuben nervously thrust his hands far into his coat-pockets. 'Coom wi me, Davy, an I'st mak yor aunt gie yer yor dinner.
I'll go home with you, and work for you till I drop. O father! how could I leave you for him? I don't care one bit for him now I don't indeed. You'll forgive me won't you, father? Tho. Aw wull, aw do, mo Mattie. Coom whoam coom whoam. Mat. Will mother forgive me, father? Tho. Thi mother, chylt? Hoo's forgiven tho lung afoor ivver so lung agoo, chylt!
Twice oi ha' been down Maarsten to see if so be as they've took him, but nowt ain't been seen of him. Oi had just coom from there now. Thou'st heerd, oi suppose, as the crowner's jury ha found as Foxey wer murdered by him; but it bain't true, you know, Luke be it?" Bill made the assertions stoutly, but there was a tremulous eagerness in the question which followed it; He was fagged and exhausted.
Bounderby, pushing away his plate, and leaning back. 'Fire away! 'I ha' coom, Stephen began, raising his eyes from the floor, after a moment's consideration, 'to ask yo yor advice. I need 't overmuch. I were married on Eas'r Monday nineteen year sin, long and dree. She were a young lass pretty enow wi' good accounts of herseln. Well! She went bad soon. Not along of me.
But nothing came of my looking at it, so far as I remember, save foolish tears of my own perhaps, till John Fry took it down one day from the hooks where father's hand had laid it; and it hurt me to see how John handled it, as if he had no memory. 'Bad job for he as her had not got thiccy the naight as her coom acrass them Doones.
While from afar you could hear the distant rumbling of 'Enry and oor Job. At the sight, M'Adam burst into a storm of passionate invective, and would have rushed on the dog had not James Moore forcibly restrained him. "Bob, lad," called the Master, "coom here!" But even as he spoke, the gray dog cocked his ears, listened a moment, and then shot down the slope.
Arcadian dreams of pastoral innocence and graceful industry, I suppose, are to be henceforth monopolised by the stage or the boudoir? Never, so help me, God! The ursine howls of the new-comer seemed to have awakened the spirit of music in the party. 'Coom, Blackburd, gi' us zong, Blackburd, bo'! cried a dozen voices to an impish, dark-eyed gipsy boy, of some thirteen years old.
A thought it were Scriptur' as he said, but a'd needed a' my strength just then for t' lift t' pot off t' fire it were t' first vittle a'd tasted sin' morn, for t' famine comes down like stones on t' head o' us poor folk: an' a' a said were just "Coom along, chap, an' fa' to; an' God's blessing be on him as eats most."
But finding now that I had foughten three-score fights already, he came up to me woefully, in the quickness of my breathing, while I sat on the knee of my second, with a piece of spongious coralline to ease me of my bloodshed, and he says in my ears, as if he was clapping spurs into a horse, "Never thee knack under, Jan, or never coom naigh Hexmoor no more." With that it was all up with me.
Travellers disgorged into an open space, a howling wilderness of idle men. All work but race-work at a stand-still; all men at a stand-still. 'Ey my word! Deant ask noon o' us to help wi' t'luggage. Bock your opinion loike a mon. Coom!
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