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Updated: May 18, 2025
"I never was one for movin' much," said the old man, uneasily. "Nay, movin' weren't in my line. I did use to work for the same master pretty near all my life, till I were took bad wi' the rheumatiz. 'E-es, he were a good master to I. I could be fain to see en again, but he's dead, they tell me, and the family ha' shifted.
It would never do for you to have tea with the others now, you know." "No, to be sure," agreed Giles blankly. "Well, and how are you, Mr. Maine? Most comfortable and happy, Mrs. Tapper tells me." "'E-es, mum," returned Giles mournfully. "Sugar and milk, Mr. Maine?" "Thankee, mum, I likes it best pure naked. I'd be thankful to 'ee, mum, if ye wouldn't call me Mr. Maine; it don't seem naitral like."
Old Blake won't be hard to throw I know him, and so does Chip. Didn't he tell yuh about it?" "Tell me!" flashed the Little Doctor. "I told him Senator Blake was coming, and that he wanted to buy the picture, and he just made him a cigarette and said, 'Ye e-es? And after that there wasn't any conversation of any description!" Weary threw back his head and laughed.
A dead silence ensued within the house, but Betty's strident tones could be heard without, uplifted in shrill discourse to curious neighbours. "'E-es, d'ye see, he did write home so soon as he did get to Darchester, a-tellin' of his aunt as he was a-comin' private-like so as to surprise his sweetheart.
"'E-es, Jim, thee 'ull be gettin' all the buns and all the baccy now," cried one of the others, laughing. "He'll have to stand up and say 'Good marnin'' to the gentry when they comes round, and tell his age, and how long he've a-been here, and all. I d' 'low he'll do it just so well as you."
And he did use to run to paddock-gate when he wur a little un, and I wur a-goin' to feed chicken he'd know my very foot, and he'd come prancin' to meet I, and put his little nose in the bucket. Dear, to be sure, I mind it just so well as if it wur yesterday!" The farmer laughed and stroked his beard. "'E-es, he was a wonderful knowin' colt," he agreed, placidly.
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