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"Poor thing! poor thing! she be far gone!" she said, when she saw her. "Bring her in, sir. There's a chair she can sit upon. I'll get her a drop o' tea that'll be better'n milk! There's next to no work, and the squire he be mad wi' Giles acause o' some rabbit or other they says he snared which they did say it was a hare I don'ow: take the skin off, an' who's to tell t'one from t'other!
'I'm a fence that's what I am, said the burglar gloomily. 'I never thought I'd come down to this, and all acause er my kind 'eart. Cyril knew that a fence is a receiver of stolen goods, and he replied briskly 'I give you my sacred the cats aren't stolen. What do you make the time?
"Oh, he preached very good Gospel, not that he went very often himself, acause he couldn't make out the meaning of it; he preached too high, like. But his wife said it was uncommon good Gospel; and surely when he come to visit a body, and talked plain English, like, not sermon-ways, he was a very pleasant man to heer, and his lady uncommon kind to nurse folk.
There's the shoe-black business, then. Bill. That ain't so bad, acause you can shoulder your box and trudge. But if it's all the same to you, Mattie, I'd rayther enj'y life: they say it's short. Mat. But it ain't the same to me. It's so bad for you to be idle, Bill! Bill. Not as I knows on. I'm tollable jolly, so long's I gets the browns for my bed. Mat.
You said the wheat was ourn, acause we growed it and thereby so's the beer for we growed the barley too." And so thought the rest; for the yard was getting full of drunkards, a woman or two among them, reeling knee-deep in the loose straw among the pigs. "Thresh out they ricks!" roared another. "Get out the threshing-machine!" "You harness the horses!" "No! there bain't no time.
We can't afford 'em, and that's the truth of it!" The crowd growled a dubious assent. "Oh, yes, you can grumble at the farmers, acause you deals with them first-hand; but you be too stupid to do aught but hunt by sight. I be an old dog, and I hunts cunning. I sees farther than my nose, I does, I larnt politics to London when I was a prentice; and I ain't forgotten the plans of it. Look you here.
"They'll be a cocking they noses oop aboove their feythers, joost acause they know moore reading and writing, but what good ul it do they I wonder?" an elderly pitman asked a circle of workmen at the "Chequers;" and a general affirmatory grunt betokened assent with the spirit of his words.
Reckons it ain't agoin' to come off jest acause we pilgrims happens to be up here." "But you said we ought to find a cave, and go in, Nick," continued the youth. "Suppose we do, and the sulphur fumes suffocate us? They must be just awful inside the mountain. This is a nice pickle for me to get into!
"If you'll 'scuse a remark from a common man," he observed, "your ladyship has a fine family of daughters." "They are not my daughters," said Miss Wilson, rather shortly. "Sisters, mebbe?" "No." "I thought they mout be, acause I have a sister myself. Not that I would make bold for to dror comparisons, even in my own mind, for she's only a common woman as common a one as ever you see.
He set up his fratching at breakfast acause his porridge was burnt, and kept at it all day. Nowt that I did for him were reet; if I filled his pipe, he said I'd putten salt in his baccy, and if I went out to feed the cauves, he told me I left the doors oppen, and wanted to give him his death o' cowd. Evening came at last, and by nine o'clock I were left alone i' the kitchen.
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