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"If thee can't read, thee knows what a book is, thee gawney!" "What a vool I be, to be sure!" said George, his simple countenance lighted up with a broader smile than before. "I knows a book, sartinly, Master Lake, I knows a book. There's one," George continued, speaking even slower than before, "there's one inzide, sir, a big un. On the shelf it be. A Vamly Bible they calls un.
He had not spent any of his breath in calling for aid, but now, in reply to the boy's cries for mercy and release, he shouted, "What be my name, now, thee big gawney? Speak, or I'll drottle 'ee." "Jan Lake," said his vanquished foe. "Let me go! Yah! yah!" "Whose son be I?" asked the remorseless Jan. "Abel Lake's, the miller! Boohoo, boohoo!" sobbed the boy.
And a poor gawney like I doesn't know's letters." "I can read a bit, Gearge," said Abel, with pride; "but I've been at home a goodish while; but mother says she'll send I to school again in spring, if the little un gets on well and walks." "I wish I could read," said George, mournfully; "but time's past for me to go to school, Abel; and who'd teach a great lummakin vool like I his letters?"
And, as he spoke, George made dismal daubs on his befloured face with his sleeve, as he rubbed his eyes with his arm from elbow to wrist. "Sech a governor as you be, too!" he continued. "Poor mother! she allus said I should come to no good, such a gawney as I be! No more I shouldn't but for you, Master Lake, a-keeping of me on. Give un another chance, sir, do 'ee!
Under the combined influences of all these causes, the nurse listened nervously to Master Lake, as he did the honors of the mill. "Those be the mill-stones, ma'am. Pretty fastish they grinds, and they goes faster when the wind's gusty. Many a good cat they've ground as flat as a pancake from the poor gawney beasts getting into the hopper."
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