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Updated: May 17, 2025
I be sad an' sore-hearted 'cause things is bad wi' me now Mister Jan's gone; an' I knaws as I've lied an' bin wicked 'bout Joe, but, kind Mother, I awnly done what Mister Jan, as was wise an' loved me, bid. Oh, God A'mighty, doan't 'E let en forget me, 'cause I've gived up all all the lil I had for en, an' Nature made me as I be.
We knowed it was comin'; it gived us good warnin' and left us plenty of time to get ready for it; so Mr Barker the lieutenant in command gived orders to send the yards and both topmasts down on deck, and rig in the jib-boom; and then he stripped her down to a close-reefed boom foresail. But we capsized reg'larly `turned turtle' when the gale struck us, and only five of us lived to tell the tale.
'Missis, says I, 'we're not without money and if yo'd give us somewhat for breakfast, we'd pay yo honest, and if yo would wash and dress that poor babby, and get some pobbies down its throat, for it's well-nigh clemmed, I'd pray for you till my dying day. So she said nought but gived me th' babby back, and afore you could say Jack Robinson, she'd a pan on th' fire, and bread and cheese on th' table.
"Oi am trying to improve myself," Bill said quietly. "Maister Sankey put me in the roight way. He gives me an hour, and sometimes two, every evening. He has been wonderful kind to me, he has; there ain't nothing oi wouldn't do for him." The sick man moved uneasily. "No more wouldn't Luke and Polly," Bill went on. "His father gived his loife, you know, for little Jenny.
See, Hetty-I had a letter from my lass." "I know, Will; but it ain't worth your while to fret for her. I know she has gived you up for that Dent fellow; and ef she, what thought to call you mate, can wed with one like him-why, let her, I say. I'm sorry as you're pained, Will; but don't let's waste the minutes talking about one like Bet Granger." "Hush," said Will.
I used to think after that waccinatin' business gived me small-pox, that I was done for; but that 'ere Emily the 'ousemaid 'ev bin waccinated, and she 'ev had small-pox too. "Well, Simon, what was her reply?"
Doan't go thrawin' me from my stride in the middle. Arter 'Sheffield make, 'half-dozen knives and forks; sundry ditto, not so good; hand saw; 2 hammers; 1 cleaver; salting trendle; 3 wheelbarrows " "Doan't forget you lent wan of 'em to Farmer Thackwell." "No, I gived it to un, him bein' pushed for need of wan. It slipped my memory. No man shall say he's got less than full value."
I gasped and gave him a little terrified shake. "Mamie Johnson did it poked her finger down her throat and mine, too," he wailed against my breast. "We was full of things folks gived us to eat and couldn't eat no more. She said if we did that with our fingers it would all come up and we would have room for some more then. She did it and I'm going to die dead dead!"
Now before I go any further, let me ask whether you, Joseph, as a watchman under government, have lost your position by having left it for two months upon a private spree?" "Lor', no, your honor! Sure you must know more than that. I gived a old 'ooman elevenpence a week, and a pot of beer a Sunday, to carry out the dooties of the government." "You farmed out your appointment at a low figure.
"I don't want to boast," said Fanny, "'tisn't my nature to do so, but if I'm gived a free hand, well I can turn out a passable meal; but when one doesn't like this and the other doesn't like that, and nothing I do is right, and there's nothing but rows and squabblings in the kitchen, and no peace nowhere well, I gives it all up! P'r'aps somebody else could manage better."
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