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He s'posed some un come in at that theer door and give it him; but he was so much taken up with Dick's visit that he could hardly think of self, and when they came away Mr Marston had learned comparatively nothing, the big fellow shouting after Dick: "I've got a tush for you, lad, when I get down to the dreern again one I digged out, and you shall hev it."
It must bon down, squire, eh?" "Yes, my man, nothing could save the place now." "Ay, moother, and my Sunday clothes," said the wheelwright with a bitter laugh. "And my best frock." "Ay, and my tools, and a bit o' mooney I'd saved, and all my stoof. Eh, but I'm about ruined, moother, and just when I was going to get on and do the bit o' work for the dreern folk."
Yow mark my words: it's sperrits, that's what it is; and it's because o' that theer dreern; but they needn't shute at me, for I don't want dreern made." "Going over to town to see the doctor, John?" said Dick. "Nay, lad, not I. It's only a hole in my arm. There arn't nowt the matter wi' me. I've tied it oop wi' some wet 'bacco, and it'll all grow oop again, same as a cooten finger do."
"Ah! those were happy days." "They weer, lad; they weer. Owd poont got dry and cracked, and of no use bud to go on the dreern, and who wanted to go on a dreern as had been used to the mere?" "No one, of course," said Dick, gazing across the fields and meadows where he had once propelled the punt.
"I'm not a harsh man, but I'd give a hundred pounds down to see the wretch who did this lying dead in the ruins." "Ay, mester," said Hickathrift in a low hoarse voice; "it be a shaame. Will it spoil the dreern, and stop all the work?" "Ay," said Dave, as he stood leaning upon his pole, which he had brought over his shoulder; "will it stop dreern?"
Why, Mester Marston's set me to mak three sets o' small watter gates for sides o' the dreern, and I'm to hev money in advance for the wood and iron work, and my fortune's about made." "Hooray, Hicky! I am glad," cried Dick; and Tom, coming up, was initiated into the great new step in advance, and added his congratulations.
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