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So she said, "Well, then, if you've got so far, it rests with yoursilf to go farther. 'Tis a blessed thing that there are such a many things in this world a-restin' on a body's lone silf. But there's them that niver foinds it out, and that goes about layin' their own blame here, there and yon." Pat's elation lasted him overnight and even well on into the next day.
I wont to do this neighbourly loike, and let them think thee's gotten awa' o' theeself, but if he cooms oot o' thot parlour awhiles theer't clearing off, he mun' have mercy on his oun boans, for I wean't. If he foinds it oot, soon efther, I'll put 'un on a wrong scent, I warrant 'ee. But if thee keep'st a good hart, thee'lt be at whoam afore they know thee'st gotten off. Coom!
"Besoides, wez rooight as wil hav been hung for a shape as a lamb. We'll be flogg'd all as wan, iv the iskhort foinds us, fur taykin' the guns, an' the knapsacks, an' the whaleborra bad luck to the borra!" "No, Petrick, don't cuss the berra it hes served us for certing. We kedn't a got along 'thout the machine how ked we?
Then turning to the rest, "B'ys, you mostly niver knows what folks is a-noticin' by what they says that is, to your face but you sometoimes foinds out by hearin' what they've been sayin' behoind your back. And, by the same token, it's mostly bad they says behoind your back." "I don't want to be larnin' from Andy," interrupted Jim. "He's but two years older than me anyway."
A woman once said to him, "Aye, Abe, I like' to hear the' preach." "Bless th' Lord for that," responded Abe. "But," continued she, "I many a toime wonders where thaa gets all th' sense from, and haa thaa foinds t' words to say, for thaa's niver been to college, nor ony place loike that." "Who says I wor niver at college?" he replied.
"Can you measure 'em off handy and careless loike, so that a body wonders if you ain't makin' a mistake, and measures 'em over after you when they gets home, and then foinds it's all roight and trusts you the nixt toime?" Pat was obliged to admit that he could not. "And can you tie up a bundle quick and slick and make it look neat?" Again Pat had to acknowledge his deficiency.
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