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Updated: June 15, 2025
All this happened at a Martinmas Fair in Bursley, long ago in the fifties, when everybody throughout the Five Towns pronounced Bursley "Bosley" as a matter of course; in the tedious and tragic old times, before it had been discovered that hell was a myth, and before the invention of pleasure or even of half-holidays.
'Besides, he went on, 'I come from the Five Towns myself. 'Bursley? I asked mechanically. 'Bursley, he ejaculated; then added, 'you haven't been near old Bosley since It was true. 'No, I said hastily. 'It is many years since I have been in England, even. Do they know down there who Qita is? 'Not they! he replied. I grew reflective. Stars such as I have no place of origin.
"Did you know well all the men who came to help in the preparations for us?" "All but two," replied the mountaineer. "One was named Leonard and the other Bosley. They come from the other side uv the mounting with some uv the boys an' we thought they wuz all right, but I reckon they must be the traitors, an' I reckon too they must hev helped some uv the gorillers into the camp.
"Not me!" said he. "I'm one o' th' busiest men in Bosley. And if ye don't know it now, you will afore long." "Oh!" she cried, "I've noticed that. But what can you expect? With all those rents to collect yourself! Of course, I think you're quite right to collect them yourself. Rent-collectors can soon ruin a property." Her tone was exceedingly sympathetic and comprehending.
"But you haven't told me what you're doing i' Bosley," said the old man. "I've told you I'm living here," said Helen. "I've now been living here for one week and one day. I'm teaching at the Park Road Board School. I got transferred from Longshaw. I never liked Longshaw, and I always like a change." "Yes," said Ollerenshaw, judiciously, "of the two I reckon as Bosley is the frying-pan.
And I bank once i' Bosley and twice i' Turnhill o' Mondays, and twice i' Bosley o' Tuesdays. Only yesterday I was behind. I reckon as I can do all my collecting between nine o'clock Monday and noon Tuesday. I go to th' worst tenants first be sure o' that. There's some o' 'em, if you don't catch 'em early o' Monday, you don't catch 'em at all."
He lived alone in Commerce Street, and, though not talkative, was usually jolly, with one or two good stories tucked away in the corners of his memory. He was my mother's trustee, and had morally aided her in the troublous times before my father's early death. 'Well, young man, cried he. 'So you're back in owd Bosley! It amused him to speak the dialect a little occasionally.
Prockter herself hasn't got more style than this." Helen soon settled down into a condition of ease, which put an end to blushing. She knew she was admired. "What are you doing i' Bosley?" James demanded. "I'm living i' Bosley," she retorted, smartly. "Living here!" He stopped, and his hard old heart almost stopped too. If not in mourning, she was in semi-mourning.
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