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Ben would never do a thing like that!" "Not he! I'd be as like to do it mysen. Thou must go thy ways and see Martha as soon as iver t' dinner is eat. I s'all stand by Martha and Ben to t' varry last. Ben Craven murder any-body! Hee! I crack't out laughing when I heard tell o' such nonsense." In fact, the squire had been touched in a very tender spot.
"What?" said Rotha. "Why," answered Liza, with a big tear near to toppling over the corner of her eye, "why, the crack't 'un goes and gathers up all the maimed dogs in Wythburn; 'Becca Rudd's 'Dash, and that's lame on a hind leg, and Nancy Grey's 'Meg, and you know she's blind of one eye, and Grace M'Nippen's 'King Dick, and he's been broken back't this many a long year, and they all up and follow Robbie when he's nigh almost drunk, and then he's right away he goes with his cap a' one side, and all the folks laughin' the big poddish-head!"
Garth, who rode along moodily enough in front of them, "did this Ray ever brag to you of what he did as captain in the army?" "What was he? Capt'n? I never heard on't," growled the blacksmith. "Brag pshaw! He's hardly the man for that," said Constable Jonathan. "I mind they crack't of his saving the life of old Wilson," said Mr. Garth, growling again.
Nathaniel Ward speaks next and with his usual conviction that his word is all that is necessary to stamp a thing as precisely what he considers it to be. They bid him Hemisphear his mouldy nose, With's crack't leering glasses, for it would pose The best brains he had in's old pudding-pan, Sex weigh'd, which best, the Woman or the Man? N. Ward.
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