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'Aye, they be busy sure enough, makin' ready in case the rebels come this road. Cromwell and his tawnies found it a rasper in my vather's time, and Monmouth is like to do the same. 'It hath a strong garrison, too, said I, bethinking me of Saxon's advice at Salisbury. 'I see two or three regiments out yonder on the bare open space.
Bless ye, I mind one up to Guy Hall, when I was a barn, that two Irish reapers coom down, and murthered her for the money and if you lost aught she'd vind it, so sure as the church and a mighty hand to cure burns; and they two villains coom back, after harvest, seventy mile to do it and when my vather's cows was shrew-struck, she made un be draed under a brimble as growed together at the both ends, she a praying like mad all the time; and they never got nothing but fourteen shilling and a crooked sixpence; for why, the devil carried off all the rest of her money; and I seen um both a-hanging in chains by Wisbeach river, with my own eyes.
'No, sir, but he has a good income, and will maintain me for three years. 'Will hee? Hee'd better make 'ee mentein yeerzelf. 'Do you think, sir, that I ought to be a pupil to anybody? 'No, said Northcote. 'Who's to teach 'ee here? It'll be throwing your vather's money away. 'Mr. Opie, sir, says I ought to be. 'Hee zays zo, does hee? ha, ha, ha, ha! he wants your vather's money.
The fame of Jan's "pitcher-making" had gone before him to Dame Datchett's school by the mouths of his foster-brothers and sisters, and he found a dozen little voices ready to dictate subjects for his pencil. "Make a 'ouse, Janny Lake." "Make thee vather's mill, Janny Lake." "Make a man. Make Dame Datchett. Make the parson. Make the Cheap Jack. Make Daddy Angel. Make Master Chuter.
Shaäke your old vather's vist, lad ees fay, you be lookin' well!" The youth, scorched with a miserable shame, stepped out, put his hand in his father's, and tried to withdraw him a little up the platform and out of my hearing. "Noa, noa; us'll bide where us be, zoa's to be 'andy vur the train when her starts off. Her doan't stay no while. I vound Zam Emmet zarving here as porter you mind Zam?
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