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"I'm sorry if there's bin any mistäake. After all, I äun't got the beasts yet thirty shillings a head is the price he asked and I paid. I call it a fair price, seeing the time of year and the state of the meat market But if your looker's bin presuming and you äun't pleased, then I wöan't call it a deal." "I'm pleased enough to sell you my beasts, and thirty shillings is a fairish price.

Old Stuppeny had made this remark at intervals for the last sixty years, indeed ever since the day he had first come as a tow-headed boy to scare sparrows from the fields of Joanna's grandfather; so no one gave it the attention that should have been its due. Other people aired their grievances instead. "I wöan't stand her meddling wud me and my sheep," said Fuller, the shepherd.

'They'll hear that fast enoof, said David, looking anxiously up at the shut windows. But the dogs went on barking, and nothing happened. Ten minutes of chilly waiting passed away. 'Tak him away, do! she cried, as Tib jumped up at her. 'No, I woan't! I woan't! The last words rose to a shriek, as David tried to persuade her to go into the stable, and let him make her a bed in the straw.

"Oh, my dear friend! forbidding to marry is a doctrine of devils! Now Lima, as I have often told you, is a city of convents " There was a sudden grinding of chairs on the flagged floor. The grey head and the red approached each other; the nightly shudder began; while the girls chattered and coughed as loudly as they dared. "No a woan't a conno believe 't!" Mrs.

But Hubert'ull do nowt he can help. Yo can hardly get him to tak' t' peaets i' ter Whinthorpe when t' peaet-cote's brastin wi' 'em. An as fer doin a job o' cartin fer t' neebors, t' horses may be eatin their heads off, Hubert woan't stir hissel'. 'Let 'em lead their aan muck for theirsels' that's what he'll say. Iver sen fadther deed it's bin janglin atwixt mother an Hubert.

'What d'yo want 'im for? she asked contemptuously, as the new-comer approached: 'he'd owt to be in th' sylum. Aunt Hannah says he's gone that silly, he owt to be took up. 'Well, he woan't be, then, retorted David. 'Theer's nobory about as ull lay a finger on 'im. He doan't do her no harm, nor yo noather. Women foak and gells allus want to be wooryin soomthin.

Mester Wharton has nobbut played his party and the workin' man a dirty trick or two an' yo mun have a gentleman! Noa the workin' man isn't fit himself to speak wi' his own enemies i' th' gate yo mun have a gentleman! an' Mester Wharton, he says he'll tak' the post, an' dea his best for yo an', remember, yo mun have a gentleman! Soa now Yes! or No! wull yo? or woan't yo?"

From the next room there came a succession of husky sibilant sounds, as though some one were whispering hurriedly and continuously. After her subdued greeting she looked inquiringly at Jim. 'She's in a taaking way, said Jim, who looked more attenuated and his face more like a pink and white parchment than ever. 'She's been knacking an' taaking a long while. She woan't know ye.

Mason moreover was discontented with the terms under which she sold her milk; and there were inquiries to be made as to another factor, and perhaps a new bargain to be struck. "Oh, the missis woan't be heaem till dark," said Daffady. "She's not yan to do her business i' haaeste. She'll see to 't aa hersen. An she's reet there.

When they have passed let go the cord and the door shuts o' 'tself, for it's got a weight and pulley. It's thy business to see that it has shut, for if a chunk of coal has happened to fall and stops the door from shutting, the ventilation goes wrong and we all goes to kingdom come in no time. That's all thou'st got to do 'cept to keep awake. Of course you woan't do that; no boy does.