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She would do all thot an' more for the dear, good Rip, an' she would nut oppen t' basket till they were miles away, for fear anybody should recognize him, an' we were real good and kind soldier-men, we were, an' she honds me a bundle o' notes, an' then cooms up a few of her relations an' friends to say good-bye not more than seventy-five there wasn't an' we cuts away.
David, eagerly watching, tracked him along the path which follows the ridge, and saw the light pause once more close to the Downfall. So far as the boy could see, his uncle made a long stay at a point beyond the stream, the bed of which was just discernible, as a sort of paler streak on the darkness. 'Why, that's about whar th' Edale path cooms in, thought David, wondering.
"We says one thing an' we reckon we'se do it, an' when th' time cooms it's impossible." A blank silence fell upon the company, broken presently by Joe. "Why," he said, "thou doesn't mean thou'rt goin' to carry out this here business?" Ted nodded, seriously and regretfully. There was a general shout. "Thou'rt never goin' to wed owd Marg'ret Hep.?"
Arter climbing a short way he cooms to a hole i' rocks, joost big enough vor to squeeze through, but once inside it opened out into a big cave. A chap had struck a loight, and there war ten or twelve more on us thar. 'We had better wait another five minutes, says one, 'to see if any more cooms along. Arter that the tide ull be too high.
Aw'm sartin sure ov him when aw see him. Aw'll not goo nigh him till somebory cooms cep' he roons away. Aw'm noan fleyed ov him, but aw met not be able to keep mo howd ov him. Oh, mo Mattie! mo Mattie! to leave thi owd faither for sich a mak ov a mon as yon! But yere cooms somebory moor. Enter MRS. CLIFFORD. Mrs. C. No one here? She can never be in his room with him! Mr. Waterfield!
Jinny felt very uncomfortable; the girl's demeanour was so strange that she began to think she had been drinking. Hastily collecting John's socks and boots she scrambled to her feet. "He's gone cocklin', has he?" inquired Sally, fixing those queer blue eyes of hers on the wife's face with an extraordinary expression; "an' you're takkin' care o's shoon till he cooms back?
It cooms and it goas, doos sech-like." "What makes it come?" "What maakes it coom? Yo knaw better than I can tall yo." "If I only did know. I'm afraid it's going." "I can tell yo this for your coomfort. Ef yo soofer enoof mebbe it'll coom t' yo again. Ef yo're snoog and 'appy sure's death it'll goa." He paused. "It 'assn't coom t' mae sence I married Ally." She was wrong about Jim.
Margaret an' me 'ull happen fall out afore weddin' day cooms; but once Canon shouts us ye mun down wi' your five shillin's." "Ah, th' marlock 'ull be cheap enough at five shillin'," cried some jovial spirit. "My word, I would laugh to hear the names called! I reckon Canon hisself 'ud scarce keep a straight face." "Nay, but think of th' poor wench," cried Jack, with an explosion of mirth.
"Is it running water, Nicky, not water in a tank?" "Why, no, miss; it cooms right out o' the rock as pretty as iver you saw! I often goes there myself for a drink, cos it tastes sort o' different, coomin' out o' the ground like. We wos used to that kind o' water at 'ome." "Let us go, Nicky," said the girl. "I should like to taste that water, too.
"Well, I reckoned there might be some sense in what t' lad said, for if I could raise a seck o' seed potates like yon I'd sooin' mak my fortune. But then I bethowt me o' t' time o' t' yeer, and I said: "'But wheer's t' sense o' settin' a potate at t' back-end? "'Thou'll not have to wait so lang to see what cooms on 't, he replied, and then he turned on his heel an' left me standin' theer.
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