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So he said, with truth, 'I'm more leetsome, Rachael, under 't, than I could'n ha believed. It was not her part to make his burden heavier. She answered with her comforting smile, and the three walked on together. Age, especially when it strives to be self-reliant and cheerful, finds much consideration among the poor.
A squeaky voice retorted: "I've bin up since four in the mornin' workin' a bloody sight 'arder 'n what you 'ave. Yer never satisfied, yer bleed'n' lot o'...." The rest was drowned in a storm of derisive shouts. Then the men in the queue took up the argument again. "Yer too slow yer could'n catch the measles!" "You come an' do my job an' see 'ow yer like it!" "Do your job!
"'Twere all a duddering mix-up. I niver a zeed anything loike it afore. Wimmen an' childer a-runnin' in and out among us like poultry; we could'n keep sections o' fours nohow. We carried some o' the little 'uns. And girt fires a-burnin' at night loike ricks a terrible blissey on the hills.
Dad said, "St-o-op!" Joe was energetic. So was Nell. She kicked up again strong and Dad fell off. "Wot, could'n' y' s-s-s-stick to 'er, Dad?" Joe asked. "STICK BE DAMNED run CATCH her! D N y'!" Joe obeyed. Dad made another start, and this time Nell went willingly. Dad was leading her! Those two old horses are dead now.
And she rushed out avore us on the landing and began hammering with her hands against a bedroom door and it wur locked. We smashed 'en in wi' our rifle-butts, and God's mercy! we found a poor woman there, her mother seemingly, with her breast all bloody an' her clothes torn. I could'n mak' out what 'er wur saying but Capt'n 'e told us as the Germans 'ad ravished her.
And, kneeling down, so as to get at their work conveniently, the little girls were soon busy smoothing and pressing the things they had brought. "Aunt Edy," said Dumps, presently, "could'n yer tell us 'bout Po' Nancy Jane O?"
"'Umph! says Pigunawaya, sezee, 'ain't dis Nancy Jane O, de swif'es'-flyin' bird dey is? sezee; 'wat ail 'long yer, chile? wat yer cryin' 'bout? An' atter Nancy Jane O she up an' tol' 'im, den de frog sez: "'Now look er yer; I wuz er gwine myse'f ter see ef'n I could'n git dat gol'-stone; hit's true I don't stan' much showin' 'long o' birds, but den ef'n eber I gits dar, wy I kin jes jump right in an' fotch up de stone wile de birds is er waitin' fur de crick ter run down.
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