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"Charles is a butty and so good. "Mr & Mrs Newton ar quite wall & desires to be remembered to you." I can throw no light on the meaning of the verb to "beslive." Each letter in the MS. is so admirably formed that there can be no question about the word being as I have given it. Nor have I been able to discover what is referred to by the words "Charles is a butty and so good."
"Can't you wait until dinner time? Such a grand dinner!" Sheila and Hans roll their eyes to convey to me that, were they to wait until dinner for sustenance we should find but their lifeless forms. "Well then, Auntie will get a nice piece of bread and butter for each of you." "Don't want bread an' butty!" shrieks Hans. "Want tooky!"
She apologetically continued to Margaret, 'He's always mithering me for "daddy" and "butty;" and I ha' no butties to give him, and daddy's away, and forgotten us a', I think. He's his father's darling, he is, said she, with a sudden turn of mood, and, dragging the child up to her knee, she began kissing it fondly. Margaret laid her hand on the woman's arm to arrest her attention. Their eyes met.
The "butty" is the head man over all the works, and indeed everything about the pit; the "doggy" has charge of the underground works, and looks after all the men and boys in the pit. The next day was Sunday, when the missionary again came to the village, and did not fail to visit Samuel Kempson's cottage. He heard of the disappearance of David Adams.
"There ayn't no black tyrant on this earth like a butty, surely," said a collier; "and there's no redress for poor men." "But why do not you state your grievances to the landlords and lessees," said the stranger. "I take it you be a stranger in these parts, sir," said Master Nixon, following up this remark by a most enormous puff.
Dick, in spite of his fears of bogies, had made up his mind to go and search for his friend alone if he could get no one to go with him. He thought perhaps the butty would let him go down with his Davy lamp. He would fill his pockets with bits of paper and drop them as he went along, so as to find his way back, and to know where he had been over before.
"Ay, ay," said another collier; "ask for the young queen's picture, and you would soon have to put your shirt on, and go up the shaft." "It's them long reckonings that force us to the tommy shops," said another collier; "and if a butty turns you away because you won't take no tommy, you're a marked man in every field about."*
If he would only allow me to speak about it he might be persuaded to accept a second dedication as some atonement for the first. "You were kind enough to dedicate your novel " "'Spring Days'?" "Yes, 'Spring Days. I know that you wished to pay me a compliment, and if I didn't write before it was because " "Was it so very bad?" A butty little man raised Oriental eyes and square hands in protest.
"'Bresto! be quick, said Handel; he knew it was Arne; 'fifteen minutes of dime is butty well for an ad libitum. "'Mr. Arne, said my great-uncle's man. "A chair was placed, and the social party commenced their déjeuner. "'Well, and how do you find yourself, my dear sir? inquired Arne, with friendly warmth.
Often they would come to the shop to purchase cloth for coats for their dogs. And they would have good cloth. Mr. Povey did not like this. One day a butty chose for his dog the best cloth of Mr. Povey's shop at 12s. a yard. "Will ye make it up? I've gotten th' measurements," asked the collier. "No, I won't!" said Mr. Povey, hotly. "And what's more, I won't sell you the cloth either!
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