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That's in the Bible, Gearge. Motive. I thought I'd try un just once more. 'What's a motive, Dame? says I. 'I've got un here, says she, quite quiet-like. But I seed her feeling under 's chair, and I know'd 'twas for the strap, and I ran straight off, spelling-book and all, Gearge." "So thee've been playing moocher, eh?" said George, with an unpleasant twinkle in his eyes.

He loved his foster-parents, and desired no others. He had a miller's thumb, and he flattened it with double pains now that his right to it was disputed. He would press Mrs. Lake's thin fingers against it in proof that he belonged to her, and the simple wile was successful, for she would smile and say, "Ay, ay, love! Thee's a miller's boy, for thee've got the miller's thumb."

Thee manners be so fine," said Jan; and the repartee drew a roar of laughter, in which the bandy-legged boy joined. "But I've lived in a windmill," Jan added, "and that be more than thee've done, I fancy."

"Thee've got no water in 'ee, and if 'ee don't fill'ee avore New Year, 'ee'll be no more good for a stree-um"! Thus briefly, to Father Thames, the shepherd of Sinodun Hill.

'Thee've one foot in grave, Aunt, says I, 'it don't altogether become 'ee to forecast autumns, I says, 'when next may be your latter end, 's like as not. 'Niece, her says, 'I be no ways presuming. His will be done, her says, 'but if I'm spared I'll rear un, and if I'm took, 'twill be where I sha'n't want un. Zo let young lady have un, her says. And there a be!"

As the brain failed, she became happier, but her sorrow was like a pain numbed by narcotics; it awoke again from time to time. She would fancy the children were with her, and then suddenly arouse to the fact that they were not, and moan that she had lost all. "Thee've got one left, mother dear," Jan would cry, and his caresses comforted her.