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You ain't got my powers of looking forward, and you hate to part with money in your pocket for the sake of money that's to be there. In a word, you're narrow-minded, and don't spend enough on manure, Rupert; and till you put it on thicker and ban't feared of paying for lime, you'll never get a root fit to put before a decent sheep."

You 'm two-and-thirty year auld next February, an' it do look as though they silly bees ban't gwaine to put money enough in the bank to spell a weddin' for us this thirty year to come. Theer's awnly your aunt, Widow Coomstock, as you can look to for a penny, and that tu doubtful to count on." "Don't name her, Chris.

If a man ban't wiser 'n his sister, he's like to have poor speed in life," said Will. Then he departed, but the events of that day were still very far from an end, and despite the warning of Chris, her brother soon stood on the verge of another quarrel.

His white bristles hurt, but Joan rejoiced exceedingly, and now it was her turn to shed tears. "He'll come back he'm a true man," she sobbed; "theer ban't the likes o' Mister Jan in Carnwall, an' an' if you knawed en, you'd say no less. You'm the fust as have got to my heart since he went; an' he'd bless 'e if he knawed."

"More gert news!" he gasped; "if it ban't too much for wan in your way o' health." "Nothing wrong at Newtake?" cried Phoebe, turning pale. "No, no; but family news for all that." The girl raised her hand to her heart, and Miller Lyddon, attracted by Billy's excited voice, hastened to his daughter and put his arm round her. "Out with it," he said. "I see news in 'e. What's the worst or best?"

When a man goes so deep into his heart as what Will have before me this minute, doan't become no man to judge un, or tell 'bout selfishness. Us have got to save our awn sawls, an' us must even leave wife, an' mother, and childer if theer 's no other way to do it. Ban't no right living ban't no fair travelling in double harness wi' conscience, onless you've got a clean mind.

Theer's gwaine to be a deal o' clome liftin' at Perm's cottage bimebye," said another of the party. "No honeymoon neither, so I hear tell," added Mrs. Tregenza. "But Taskes have bought flam-new furniture for his parlor, they sez," declared the former speaker. "Of coorse. Still no honeymoon 'tall! Who ever heard tell of sich a thing nowadays? I wonder they ban't 'shamed." "Less shame, Mrs.

"Fifty wouldn't hardly do, p'r'aps?" "Hardly. I like to carry a job through clean an' vitty while I'm on it." "You've got such a big spirit." "As to that, money so spent ban't lost 'tis all in the fam'ly." "Of course 'tis a gude advertisement for you. Folk'll think you'm prosperin' an' look up to you more." "Well, some might, though I doan't 'zactly mean it like that.

He was strong and agile seemingly, and he began to gibber and cuss and chatter like an ape the moment he catched sight of her. He dropped the barrow and stared, and his jaw dropped and then closed up again. He drew up to his full height, which weren't above five foot, five inches, and he screamed with rage and began his talk with several words I ban't going to write down for anybody.

The li'l gal will never stand it. Read on now. Theer ban't much left, surely?" "Scores o' things! '1 stuffed kingfisher in good case with painted picture at back; 1 fox mask; 1 mahogany 2-lap table; 1 warming-pan; Britannia metal teapot and 6 spoons ditto metal; 5 spoons smaller ditto metal." "I found the one us lost."