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Now to-morrow I shall ask the good people that bring me my food to fetch some nice eggs and milk for thee as well; for bread is good enough for poor old good-for-nothing me, but not for thee. And I shall teach thee to read." "I can yead, I can yead." "Ay, verily, so young? all the better; we will read good books together, and I shall show thee the way to heaven.
And look here; if you don't knock at the door when next you come in, by heavens I'll throw this tumbler at your yead." "Sure and I will, yer honour," said Tom, withdrawing. "And where on hearth has the twelve hundred pounds gone?" asked the son, looking severely at the father. Old Mr. Mollett made no immediate answer in words, but putting his left hand to his right elbow, began to shake it.
'Mak her tie it, said the woman, showing an antiquated pair of strings. 'If she loses it she needna coom cryin for anudder. She'd lose her yead if it wor loose. Then she turned and went back into the house. It was a smallish house of grey stone, three windows above, two and a door below.
Even dreamy Learoyd's eyes began to brighten, and he unburdened himself of a long history in which a trip to Malham Cove, a girl at Pateley Brigg, a ganger, himself and a pair of clogs were mixed in drawling tangle. 'An' so Ah coot's yead oppen from t' chin to t' hair, an' he was abed for t' matter o' a month, concluded Learoyd pensively.
I was feared on her, Gearge, I can tell 'ee; but I tried my luck again. 'What's a molar, Dame? says I. ''Tis a wus word than t'other, says she; 'and, if 'ee axes me any more voolish questions, I'll break thee yead for 'ee. Do 'ee think 'tis a very bad word, Gearge?" added Abel, with a rather indefensible curiosity. "I never heard un," said George.
Even dreamy Learoyd's eyes began to brighten, and he unburdened himself of a long history in which a trip to Malham Cove, a girl at Pateley Brigg, a ganger, himself and a pair of clogs were mixed in drawling tangle. "An' so Ah coot's yead oppen from t' chin to t' hair, an' he was abed for t' matter o' a month," concluded Learoyd, pensively.
"A can keep things in my yead," said George, "better than most folks can keep a book; I knows what I has, and what other folks can't get at. I knows how I put un in. First, the five-pound bill" "They must have stared to see you bring five pound in a lump, George, my dear!" said the hunchback. "Was it wise, do you think?" "Gearge bean't such a vool as a looks," replied the miller's man.
He lukes me straight in the eyes, and 'Luke, sezzee, 'us 'a' got tu git the place in vamous arder vur young Zur Peter, sezzee, 'An' I be responsible, and danged but what 'a'll du't, 'ee zays. An' I touched my yead, zo, and I zays, 'Very gude, zur, 'a zays. 'An' zo 'twill be, yu may depend on't."
Just before Master Lake had got beyond earshot, George lowered the broom, and began to scratch his head once more. "I be a proper vool, sartinly," said he; and when the miller heard this, he turned back. "Mother allus said I'd no more sense in my yead than a dumbledore," George candidly confessed. And by a dumbledore he meant a humble-bee. "It do take me such a time to mind any thing, sir."
When he got into the house he threw it down with a crash that startled Sally, his wife. "There," he said, playfully pretending to be vexed, "I'll fetch thee na moor coils on my yead, so thaa needn't expect it." "What's matter wi' the' naa?" she said, looking at him. "I tell the' I'll fetch the' na maar coils," he responded, rubbing his scalp as if it hurt him.