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She sat down on a stool in the kitchen, and law! how she did cry! However, all of a sudden she heard a sort of a knocking low down on the door. She upped and oped it, and what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail. That looked up at her right curious, and that said: "What are you a-crying for?" "What's that to you?" says she.
Arter waitin' for a long while I started out, an' 'oped to see her in sum part o' Lunnon. Another story Tom Peregrine is fond of reading to us relates how a labouring man was recommended to get some oxtail soup to strengthen him. He goes into the town and sees "Oxikali Soap" written up on a shop window.
And then he went out and locked the door. He'd hardly gone, when there was a knocking against the window. She upped and she oped it, and there sure enough was the little old thing sitting on the ledge. "Where's the flax?" says he. "Here it be," says she. And she gave it to him. Well, come the evening a knocking came again to the window.
I 'ad two 'arfpints with 'im at the Albion with his missis walking up and down outside and arter the second 'arf-pint he said he wanted to meet Dorothy and tell 'er that 'e was married, and that he 'oped she would meet some good man that was worthy of 'er. I had a week's peace while the ship was away, but she was hardly made fast afore I 'ad it all over agin and agin.
But in spite of my declaration she insisted that it must taste "murky" to one who was accustomed to better things. The ham was never too good in Liverpool, but she 'oped that it wasn't "reesty." I solemnly declared that it was not "reesty." But Mrs. Chaffin and Mr.
That's what I 'oped you'd say. 'Member what I says to you in the winter-time that night Mr. Fuller looked in for his bit o' rent about me gettin' of the fidgets in my legs? An' I says, 'Why not take to the road a bit, now and again? an' you says, 'We'll see about that, come summer. And 'ere is come summer.
"I've known her ever since she was a yard long. Well, she told me, the even it happed came Jack Johnson to their house, and when she oped the door, she was fair feared of him, he looked so strange his face all white, and such a glitter of his eyes she marvelled what had taken him. And says he, `Agnes, my Helen's gone. `Gone? oh dear! says she. `Ay, she's gone, thank God! says he.
So we rode and rode, who but we, and dined gaily under spreading trees, boasting of the brave deeds we would do when we had tracked the black Marooning vagabonds to their lair. At which those Negro servants upon whom we could depend grinned from ear to ear, and told us in their lingo that they "oped we would soon Dam black negar tief out, and burn his Fader like canebrake."
Dark masses of clouds closed round the present sunshine; the present fled like a mist before them, and they oped, and then there was still Wallace; but oh! how did I see him? the scaffold, the cord, the mocking crowds, the steel-clad guards all, all, even as he fell. My children! my children! was there joy in this?"
The noise woke Peter up, and, as Sam wouldn't shake 'ands with 'im either, they both patted him on the back instead. They made him take 'em to the little pub, arter breakfast, to read the bill about the reward. Sam didn't mind going, as it 'appened, as he 'oped to meet 'is new pal there and tell 'im his troubles, but, though they stayed there some time, 'e didn't turn up.
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