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And moment, and moping, and moral." "What's moral?" inquired George. "'Tis what they put at the end of Vables, Gearge. There's Vables at the end of the spelling-book, and I've read un all. There's the Wolf and the Lamb, and" "I knows now," said George. "'Tis like the last verse of that song about the Harnet and the Bittle. Go on, Abel." "Mortal. That's swearing. Moses.
If you were to ask a hundred times it would not make the slightest bit of difference. You cannot go, and you must stop thinking about it." Toddie listened intelligently from beginning to end, and replied: "But I wantsh to go." "And you can't. That ends the matter." "No, it don't," said Toddie, "not a single bittle. I wantsh to go badder than ever." "But you are not going."
Oatmeal or porridge is always called "grouts"; and the Cotswold native does not talk of hoisting a ladder, but "highsting" is the term he uses. The steps of the ladder are the "rongs." Luncheon is "nuncheon." Other words in the dialect are "caddie" = to humbug; "cham" = to chew; "barken" = a homestead; and "bittle" = a mallet.
"B-z-z-z-z!" went William behind the chair; and he added, sotto voce, to Jan, "She be as dunch as a bittle." At last the Dame heard, and looked round. "Be that a harnet, missus, do 'ee think?" said William, with a face as guileless as a babe's. Dame Datchett rose in terror. William bent to look beneath her chair for the hornet, and of course repeated his hum.
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