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"You're a good fellow," said Molloy, looking up. "I thank the Lord for sendin' you to comfort me, and I do need comfort a bit just now, d'ee know. There I'm better a'ready, an' I'll be upside wi' them next time, for I feels, somehow, that I couldn't stand another turn. Poor Moses!
"Come, Gunter, you're too hard on 'im," cried Spivin; "I don't believe you've bought a watch for her at all; at least if you have, it must be a pewter one." Thus taunted, Gunter resolved to carry out the bold line of action. "What d'ee call that?" he cried, pulling out the watch and holding it up to view.
He was now nearly ten, and well grown, both intellectually and physically, for his age. "Well, Tommy, how d'ee git on wi' the light-'ouse?" asked his father. "Pretty well, faither: but it seems to me that Mr Winstanley had too many stickin'-out poles, an' curlywurleys, an' things o' that sort about it."
Turned religious late in life. What d'ee think he did? Got his men together one Sunday mornin', marched them up to Meetin' house, up to Four Turnin's; slipped his ridin' crop through the haps o' the door, an' 'Now my Billies, says he, through the key-hole, 'not a man or woman of 'ee leaves the place till you've said that Amazin' Creed.
"Well, mother," said Captain Wopper, "now that I've given you a full, true, an' partikler account of Switzerland, what d'ee think of it?" "It is a strange place very, but I don't approve of people risking their lives and breaking their limbs for the mere pleasure of getting to the top of a mountain of ice."
D'ee know anything about your mother's affairs?" "No, sir," said Jack, meekly, for he began to entertain a vague terror of the man. "No; I thought not. Well, I'll enlighten you. Your mother owes me three weeks' rent of this here room, and has got nothing to pay it with, as far as I knows, except these sticks o' furniture.
An' when they putt me into this here room, an' produced the beans an' oil, I began to feel quite easy in my mind about you. It was the man that brought your marchin' orders that told 'em to putt me here. D'ee know, lad, I can't help feelin' that a friend o' some sort must have bin raised up to us." "You're right, Jack, I have just seen the Arab whose life I saved, and who saved yours!
"D'ee hear what they say? I'm saved. I'm the Squire of this parish, and I'm goin' to Heaven. I make no account of you and your church. Old Satan's the fellow I'm after, and I'm going to have him out o' this parish to-night or my name's not Squire Moyle." "That's of it, Squire!" "Hunt 'en!" "Out with 'en!" He turned on the crowd. "Hunt 'en? Iss fay I will! Come along, boys back to Tredinnis!
"That's true," answered the captain, "but when a man, after bein' so low that he seems to be bound for the next world, finds the tide risin' again, the feelin' is apt to come stronger, d'ee see? D'you expect to make the fleet to-day?" "Yes, sir, we should make it in the evenin' if the admiral has stuck to his plans."
Dan! rouse up, old boy! Shall we start without you?" "Yes, yes I'm ready," said the poor fellow, starting up and swaying to and fro like a drunken man; "but I say, Peter, I'm done for. I depend on you, lad, to keep me up to the scratch. Lay the dog-whip across my shoulders if I try to lie down. Promise me that. D'ee hear!" "Yes, I understand," returned the youth with intense earnestness.
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