a-owing

Updated: May 11, 2025

"There be ten weeks' rent a-owing," said he, sitting down; "and we don't mean to wait no longer. And there's a half-side o' bacon an' a load of faggots." "How much is it altogether?" "Seventeen-and-six." "I ain't a-got but a pound, and Absalom bean't come whoam." "The vagabond cuss 'im!" "A bean't no vagabond," cried Madge, firing up in defence of her husband.

Richard Jefferies - The Toilers of the Field