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Updated: May 15, 2025
It's been rottin' for many a year, has this owd brig why, I mind when it wor last repaired, and that wor years afore owd Mestur Mallathorpe bowt this estate!" "When do you say you told Mrs. Mallathorpe all that?" asked Pratt. "Friday noon it were, sir," answered the woodman. "When I were on my way home dinner time. 'Cause I met the missis here, and I made bold to tell her what I'd noticed.
"Her eldest daughter then she sped To fetch Child Dyring out of bed"; instead of Jamieson's And, still worse, "Out from their chest she stretch'd her bones And rent her way through earth and stones"; where Jamieson is not only more literal, but more forcible, "Wi' her banes sae stark a bowt she gae Hath riven both wall and marble gray." The original is better than either,
"You'll get nobody to pay what I'm offering," Bell replied. "A stranger would want to see Harkness' books and there's nowt in them as would tempt him to pay a decent rent. Then, with trailer going back from station, I could beat him on the haulage up the dale. He'd niver get his money back if he bowt an engine like mine." This was plausible, but Osborn hesitated.
"Aye, I bowt her for sixpence afore I wed her," he said, looking them steadily in the face, "an' t' man that selled her to me said I'd gotten her muck-cheap. Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her." During all the years that Mary Whittaker had spent at Holmton she had not once caught sight of Samuel Learoyd.
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