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As soon as things were in this forward state, I returned to the verandah, and found our swagger guest drawing a very long breath after a good nip of pure whisky which F had promptly administered to him. "I'm fair clemmed wi' cold and wet," the swagger said, still bundled up in his comparatively sheltered corner. "I've been out on the hills the whole night, and I am deadbeat.
'I should think two hours in the morning and an hour and a half in the late afternoon or evening might do, unless there be a change for the worse, or Elspeth falls ill; she is very old and feeble. 'She was half starved, poor old creature, fairly clemmed, as they say in the North. Here we are at your place, Miss Garston. How bright and inviting your parlour looks!
She blinked, furiously fighting with her tears, and at last she put up an impatient hand which left a long brown streak across her miserable little face. 'Yo havn't got no trade, she said. 'Yo'll be clemmed. David withdrew his arm, and gulped down his rebuff. 'No, I sha'n't, he said. 'Now you just listen here. And he described how, the day before, he had been to see Mr.
'If you lived at Undern you could wear them every day. 'If ifs were beans and bacon, there's few'd go clemmed, said Hazel. 'That green un's proper, like when the leaves come new, and little small roses and all. Put it on while I see what Vessons is doing. 'He's grumbling in the kitchen, seemingly, said Hazel. Vessons always grumbled.
She would have a long, wild walk home, but she could creep in through her bedroom window, which would not latch, and she could make a great fire of dry broom and brew some tea. 'And I'll let Foxy in and eat a loaf, I will, for I'm clemmed! she said. She slipped out through the door that had seen so many human lives come and go.
"Poor maid out i' the storm an' clemmed wi' cold an' 'unger, poor lass! Bring her upstairs our warm bed, Jarge an' then brandy, lad, an' the kettle on th' fire up wi' you!"
'I'm nigh clemmed, were his first words, as he seized the brown loaf and cut off a slice, which he devoured ravenously. 'It seems like a year, he continued; 'thee'lt never catch me being left behind anywhere again. Eh, Stephen, lad! many a time I shouted for fear I'd never see daylight again; it's awful down there in the night.
'How now, my bit lassie? as he put her into the outstretched arms of his wife, who sat down on the settle to receive her, still not half awake. 'She is well-nigh clemmed, said Hal. 'She has had no bite nor sup all day, since her pony fell with her out a-hawking, and all were so hot on the chase that none heeded her. Mother Doll's exclamations of pity were profuse.
"The last part's true all right," Tembarom owned, "but there's some mistakes in the first part. I wasn't born in the workhouse, and though I've been hungry enough, I never starved to death if that's what `clemmed' means." Tummas looked at once disappointed and somewhat incredulous. "That's th' road they tell it i' th' village," he argued. "Well, let them tell it that way if they like it best.
All th' real 'Merikens comes from the North, wheer New York is." "I come from New York," said Tembarom. "Tha wert born i' th' workhouse, tha run about th' streets i' rags, tha pretty nigh clemmed to death, tha blacked boots, tha sold newspapers, tha feyther was a common workin'-mon and now tha's coom into Temple Barholm an' sixty thousand a year."
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