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Here also, and at Swole, or Southole, the next seaport, they cure sprats in the same manner as they do herrings at Yarmouth; that is to say, speaking in their own language, they make red sprats; or to speak good English, they make sprats red.
Evylyn saw Tom lurch forward and put his hand on Ahearns shoulder and suddenly she was listening to a new, anxious voice at her elbow, and, turning, found Hilda, the second maid. "Please, Mis' Piper, I tank Yulie got her hand poisoned. It's all swole up and her cheeks is hot and she's moanin' an' groanin' " "Julie is?" Evylyn asked sharply. The party suddenly receded.
An' night befo' las' it was lookin' mighty angry an' swole, an' he had limped an' "ouched!" consider'ble all day, an' he was mighty fretful bed-time. So, after he went to sleep, wife she come out on the po'ch where I was settin', and she says to me, says she, her face all drawed up an' workin', says she: "Honey," says she, "I reckon we better sen' for him an' have it did." Thess so, she said it.
"Well, she were my sister after all, Miss Lucy," retorted Cook, "and perhaps I may, or may not, know what she done. I say she swole and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy. All along of drinking water.... Drops of water Dropsy." "Never drink water," murmured Dam, absentmindedly annexing, and pocketing, an apple. "Ah, water, but you see this is lemonade," countered Lucille.
Says I: "Parson," says I, speakin' thess ez ca'm ez I am this minute "Parson," says I, "his little foot is mighty swole, an' so'e, an' that splinter thess s'pose he was to take the lockjaw an' die don't you reckon you might do it where he sets from where you stand?"
"Hard taps; they was silver taps," ejaculated Cook, "and drawed gallings and gallings and nothing to laugh at, Master Dammicles, neether.... So don't you drink no more, Miss Lucy." "I can't," admitted Lucille and indeed, to Dam, who regarded his "cousin" with considerable concern, it did seem that, even as Cook's poor young sister of unhappy memory, Lucille had "swole" though only locally.
Sometimes it was a plan so much bigger that if they had kept it to themselves, like the darkey's cow, they would have "all swole up and died." "Sst! Come here once. Tell you sumpum. Now don't you go and blab it out, now will you? Hope to die? Well.... Now, no kiddin'. Cross your heart? Well.... Ah, you will, too. I know you. You go and tattle everything you hear.... Well.... Cheese it!
It is remarkable that this town is now so much washed away by the sea, that what little trade they have is carried on by Walderswick, a little town near Swole, the vessels coming in there, because the ruins of Dunwich make the shore there unsafe and uneasy to the boats; from whence the northern coasting seamen a rude verse of their own using, and I suppose of their own making, as follows,
But today Prue's eyes were red, and her lips were all a-droop, the which, though her smile was brave and ready, the Ancient was quick to notice. "Why, Prue, lass, you've been weepin'!" "Yes, grandfer." "Your pretty eyes be all swole red they be; what's the trouble?" "Oh! 'tis nothing, dear, 'tis just a maid's fulishness never mind me, dear."
It thess lodged there, an' his little foot it commenced to swell, an' it swole an' swole tell his little toes stuck out so thet the little pig thet went to market looked like ez ef it wasn't on speakin' terms with the little pig thet stayed home, an' wife an' me we watched it, an' I reckon she prayed over it consider'ble, an' I read a extry psalm at night befo' I went to bed, all on account o' that little foot.
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