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Updated: June 26, 2025
The old woman listened attentively to catch the sound which she longed for more than anything else in the world, but the street noises drowned everything. She sank back in her chair and took up the garment she was at work on. But her mind was busy, and after a few minutes she turned again to her daughter. "Thoo'll not be thinkin' o' havin' a day i' t' coontry this month, Mary?"
"Und who might own dese farms, all oop and down der coontry, dat I sees?" "As the law now stands, Littlepage owns 'em; but if we alter the law enough, he wun't. If we can only work the Legislature up to the stickin' p'int, we shall get all we want. Would you believe it, the man wun't sell a single farm, they say; but wishes to keep every one on 'em for himself!
"Are we to go on, and pay rent for ever?" they ask, with logical and virtuous indignation! "Und vhat may be der aferage value of a hoondred acre farm, in dis part of de coontry?" I inquired. "From two thousand five hundred to three thousand dollars. It would be more, but tenants won't put good buildings on farms, you know, seein' that they don't own them.
As he sat in the big rocking-chair, fiercely cuddling Tim and sucking his thumb, his stormy breath subsiding by degrees, Hannah thought him, as she confessed to the only female friend she possessed in the world, 'the pluckiest and bonniest little grig i' th' coontry side.
Friend Hopper jumped out, and asked if they would turn that big stone aside. "And sure ye've no business here at all," they replied. "Ye may jist go round by the ould road." "Och!" said Friend Hopper, "and is this the way I'm trated by my coontryman? I'm from Ireland meself; and sure I did'nt expect to be trated so by my coontrymen in a strange coontry."
"I coomes from Charmany, und I goes into der kerch, as dey say in mine coontry; what might be callet meetin'-us, here." What might have followed, it is not easy to say, had not the loud, declamatory voice of the lecturer just then been heard, as he commenced his address.
"What I'm sayin' is, get a man of the working class a man who has the wants of the working class a man whom the working class can get a hold on to do your business for you, and not any bloodsucking landlord or capitalist. It's a slap i' the face to ivery honest working man i' the coontry, to mak' a Labour party and put Harry Wharton at t' head of it!" The young Socialist looked at him askance.
In my coontry, efery mans isht obliget to be a soldier some time, and them t'at knows Latin can be made sergeants and corporals." "That is Prussia, is it?" "Ya Preussen, vere so late did reign de goot Koenig Wilhelm." "And is Latin much understood among you? I have heard that, in Hungary, most well-informed persons even speak the tongue." "In Charmany it isht not so.
It ist not ferry easy to explain it in a few vords, but der brincipal ding ist dat der vassal owes a serfice to hist lort. In de olten dimes dis serfice vast military, und dere ist someding of dat now. It ist de noples who owe der feudal serfice, brincipally, in mine coontry, and dey owes it to de kings and brinces." "And don't you call giving a chicken for rent feudal service, in Germany?"
Dis ist a free coontry, effery body dells me, and vilt der beoples agree not to hire lands if dey vants to?" "Oh! you see we wish to choke the landlords off from their present leases; and, by and bye, when that is done, the law can let up again." "But ist dat right? Der law should be joost, and not hold down and let oop, as you calls it." "You don't understand us yet, I see.
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