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Did they send you that message? Did they, now? Tell me, did they? Give me that letter!" He snatched the letter from Martha's lap. "Sammy," he demanded, "where did this letter come from?" "Narth Pole, zur!" Jonas Jutt blushed and Matilda threw her apron over her head to hide her confusion. "And how did it come?" "Out o' the stove, zur."
"Catching a deer!" the doctor exclaimed. "A most extraordinary thing. He was a fool to try it. How long ago?" "Sure, it can't be more than half an hour; for he've " The doctor jumped up. "Where is he?" he demanded, with professional eagerness. "It can't be far. Davy, I must get to him at once. I must attend to that leg. Where is he?" "Narth Pole, zur," whispered Sammy.
He spoke in an off-hand casual sort of way, and was rather proud of his knowledge until the boy laughed. "No, sir, that there is Crockern Tor. Cawsan' Baycon be right 'way 'tother side of Dartymoor, right 'long up in the narth, Oke'ampton way." "Is Crockern Tor as high as Cawsand Beacon?" asked Paul, more humbly. "I reckon not, not by a brave bit," said the boy, "but it's a purty place to go to."
The fellow's dialect was so strange that Kirk inquired: "Where did you come from?" "Jamaica, sar. I was barn on the narth coast of the h'island, sar." "Did you just arrive here?" "Oh, Lard, no! I 'ave been a liver here for two year." "A liver!" Kirk could not help smiling. "Yes, sar! Sometimes I labor on the docks, again in the h'office. Lahst week lose I my position, and to-day my room h'also.
Yer honner must know all about thim miners in the Black Counthry, an' in Wales, an' the Narth o' England? Ye didn't? Ah, now, ye're jokin' me, ye take me for an omadhaun all out. Ye know all about it; ye know that these poor men goes down, an' down, an' down, till ye'd think they'd niver shtop, an' that they stay there a whole week afore they come up agin.
'Manda an' me was down narth when the last parson come this way. An' 'Manda she've been wantin' " "T' have it done," Aunt Amanda put in, patting the curly head of the smallest Bow, "afore " "Ay," said Uncle Joe, "wantin' t' have it done, shipshape, afore she " "Died," Aunt Amanda concluded. By this time the amazing news had spread.
"I'm t' be married to un when he comes up from the Narth. Does you think " She paused in embarrassment, perhaps: for it may be that it was the great hope of this maid, as it is of all true women of our coast, to live to be the mother of sons. "Go on," the doctor quietly said.
It may be that my thoughts changed with the dying blaze passing from merry fancies to gray visions, trooping out of the recent weeks, of cold and hunger and squalid death in the places from which we had returned. "Davy!" said my sister. I started. "What in the world," she asked, "is you thinkin' so dolefully of?" "I been thinkin'," I answered, sighing, "o' the folk down narth."
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