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'Yi, lass, I see, sobbed Mrs. Stott. 'And thoose claads, mother! See yo' haa they're goin'. And th' hills and moors? Why I con see them plainer and plainer! Haa grond they are! They're awlus theer. Them, Mr. Penrose said, stood for God's love, didn't he, mother? and them claads as are lifting for my sins. 'Yi, lass; he did, forsure.

I've played o' th' neet thro' on these moors, Mr. Penrose, when I couldn't sleep i' bed, or stay i' th' haas. It's a grond thing, is music, when yo're brokken-hearted. If ever yo' marry and hev childer, teach 'em music a chap as con play con feight th' devil so much better nor him as cornd.

I once yerd a grond sarmon fro' that text i' th' pulpit up aboon here; and when it were oer, Dickey o' Sams o' the Heights went aat o' th' chapel, and tried to draan hissel' i' Green Fold Lodge. Naa, that's what I co powerful preychin'! 'Pardon me, Mr. Bradshaw. We are not here to discuss the merits of preaching. We are here to consider the request of Amanda Stott 'An' axin' yor pardon, Mr.

Turning down by the Clough, they met old Enoch and his wife, who, though on their way to Rehoboth, were so full of the spirit of the hour and the season that they thought little of the bald ritual and barn-like sanctuary that was drawing their steps. 'This is grond, lad, said Enoch to Matt, as he threw back his shoulders to take a deep inspiration of the moorland air.

'Ay me, but he's grond'; and all the rest of the townsfolk said the same to themselves or each other, but they expressed it in all the different ways of that dignified caution common to the Scotch. There was a series of swings, one trapeze fixed higher than another, like a line of gigantic steps, to the very pinnacle of the tent.

Under its provisions, the Boers, now safe from interference on the part of the British, established their own Government and promulgated their "Grond Wet," or Constitution. The history of the Republic between 1852 and 1876 is not very interesting, and is besides too wearisome to enter into here.

He said, in an airy way, that the reason he did the town the honour of beholding this most wonderful of all his feats was merely that he had taken a liking to the place. 'Ay, but he's grond, said the little barefoot boys to one another as they huddled against the front of the stand allotted to them.

Up and up he went, swinging himself with lissome grace, raising each trapeze with the force of his swing until he could reach the one above it. He looked smaller as he travelled higher in his wonderful flying progress. The little boys had not breath left now even to say, 'Ay me, but he's grond. There was silence among all the crowd.