a-worked

Updated: May 7, 2025

The woman did not laugh; she was screwing up her eyes in the endeavour to penetrate the darkness of the stable. "Poor wold Blackbird," she said, "I wish it hadn't come to this. It do seem cruel someway. There, he did never cost 'ee a penny, wi'out 'twas for shoes, and he've a-worked hard ever sin' he could pull a cart never a bit o' vice or mischief.

M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis - North, South and over the Sea