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White with anger, he raised his hand to strike Liza, who thereupon drew up, and, giving him a vigorous slap on each cheek, said, "Keep thy neb oot of that, thoo bummeller, and go fratch with Robbie Anderson I hear he dinged thee ower, thoo sow-faced 'un." The mention of this name served as a timely reminder to Mr. Garth, who dropped his arm and rode away, muttering savagely under his breath.
She revenged herself by assuming a haughty coldness. But it was of no use. Robbie laughed and crowed and bantered. At this juncture Mattha Branth'et came into the cottage. The weaver was obviously in a state of profound agitation. He had just had a "fratch" with the Quaker preachers on the subject of election.
Peter lighted his pipe and there was silence for a few minutes. Then as Kit did not move he remarked: "I ken something o' what you're feeling; aw t' same you've got to fratch. There's nowt against the lass except that she's Osborn's child, but she's none o' our kind and it's sense and custom that like gans to like." "It would be easier if I could get away.
I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my makin'. Yo'll ca' me traitor and that yo I mean t' say, addressing Slackbridge, 'but 'tis easier to ca' than mak' out. So let be. He had moved away a pace or two to come down from the platform, when he remembered something he had not said, and returned again.
He suspected the agent had a private understanding that was not to his employer's benefit with Bell; but this was another matter. Peter had taught his son to concentrate on the business in hand. "Weel," he said, "you can have aw t' peat you want and we willunt fratch if you pay me nowt. There's acres o' good stuff on Malton moor, and the value o' peat t' labor it costs to cut.
'I just spoke up, she said, 'and told him I didn't see how he was going to do any good to the pour soul over a telephone wire. 'It isn't that, he said, 'but I might have put them on to Peter Fratch for the funeral. We've never had an undertaker in the church before, he said; 'he's just come, and he ought to be supported.
"Dus'ta mind the fratch thoo telt me aboot atween Angus and auld Wilson?" said Reuben Thwaite to Matthew Branthwaite. "What quarrel was that?" asked Monsey. "Why, the last fratch of all, when Wilson gat the sneck posset frae Shoulthwaite," said Matthew. "I never heard of it," said the schoolmaster. "There's nowt much to hear.
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