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Tim he'd grawed to a power wi' the gypsy people by that time; but faither was allus hard against un. He hated wanderers in tents or 'pon wheels, or even sea-gwaine sailor-men he carried it that far. Then comed a peep o' day when Tim's bonny yellow caravan 'peared around the corner of that windin' road what goes all across the Moor.
Leastways, that's wan on's names, but I never can call home the other, though he tawld me wance. He was here last early spring-time, an' painted a gert picture of me up 'pon top the hill they calls Gorse Point."
When my cold, stiff hands are crossed under the coffin-lid, nobody left 'pon top of this mournful earth ever can say that I sat by, like a bump on a log, and never said a word when I saw all these awful calamities a-coming." Thus voicing these vague alarms in her sweetest tones, Miss Penelope turned nervously and glanced at her half-sister.
Never did Caroline Strike admire her sister's fearful genius more than at that moment. Mr. George ducked and rolled his hand over his chin, with 'ah-um! and the like, ended by a dry laugh. 'Are you our supporter, Mr. Uplift? 'Tory interest, ma um my lady. 'And are you staunch and may be trusted? ''Pon my honour, I think I have that reputation.
One day I picked up a map, an' seed a place on it called 'Little Sins. 'Little Sins wants great Deliverance, says I, an' I started clane off an' walked to the place, though I'd never so much as heard of it till then. 'Twas harvest-time there, an' I danced into the field, shouting 'Glory, glory. The harvest is plenty, but the labourers be few! The farmer was moved to give me a job 'pon the spot.
"I may crack something else besides jokes with him some day," answered he, moodily. "'Pon my word, you must take care how you do it. He is as big as four of us." "That vile aristocrat, the old Italian poet what's his name?
This morning we happened to meet in the grape arbor and as I was respectfully saluting the cheek of the Princess, two of the King's guards seized me and beat me terribly before the very eyes of Gloria, whom the King himself held back so she could not interfere." "Why, this King must be a monster!" cried Trot. "He is far worse than that," said Pon, mournfully.
I could see that Cashmere gate and the Delhi walls ahead of me; 'pon my soul I felt as if they were defying me and despising me, just standing waiting there under the blazing sky, and they never seemed to get any nearer.
The ladies dropped their lorgnettes, the men's glasses fell from their eyes and their faces straightened, the noisy old soul with the ear-trumpet sitting under Glory's arm was snuffling audibly, and at the next moment there was a chorus of admiring remarks. "'Pon my word, this is something new, don't you know!" "Fine girl too!" "Fine! Irish girls often run to it."
"An' so you be, Blanchard, an' 't is a awful deed every ways, an' you'll larn it some day. You did ought to be merry an' glad to hear such a thing 's been found 'pon Newtake. Think o' the fortune a cross o' Christ brings to 'e!" "An' how much has it brought, you auld fule?" "Gude or bad, you'll be a sight wuss off it you leave it wheer 't is, now you knaw.
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