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You get well howd o' the band while young squire untwisses the hook. He's 'bout bet out now and wean't mak' much of a fight!" Tom obeyed, and Dick, who was trembling with excitement, set the hook at liberty.
"But one can see they are Clarkes. Let me guess. Yes, they must be poor Henry's children!" At this, Lord Valmond had such a violent fit of choking by the tea-table, that Aunt Maria, who hears the oddest, most unexpected things, caught that, and saw him, and saying, "Howd' ye do?" created a diversion.
Shall I go and catch her?" "Yes," said Dick, grinning. "Shall I say, `Sh!" "Nay, if thou'rt going to play tricks, lad, I shall howd my hand. I thowt yow wanted to see me ketch a hare." "Go on, then," said Dick, laughing; "we won't move."
Reuben leant against the passage wall, staring at his wife. 'Yo're a hard woman, Hannah a hard woman, he said to her under his breath, in a low, shaken voice. 'An yo coed 'em beggar's brats oh Lord Lord! 'Howd your tongue, an blow up t' fire, was all the reply she vouchsafed him, and Reuben obeyed. Meanwhile upstairs Louie had been laid on her bed.
"There's a big one howd o' that bait, my lads," said Dave, "and he'll give us a race. Shall we leave him?" "Leave him! no," cried the lads together. "Ah, you heven't got to pole!" said Dave thoughtfully, as he gazed at the bladder skimming along a couple of hundred yards away. "Then let me do the poling," cried Dick eagerly, "I'm not tired."
Shoo were that thrang shee'd sooin getten shut o' all t' wool that Throp could get howd on, an' then shoo axed t' farmers to let t' barns out o' t' village go round t' moors an' bring her t' wool that had getten scratted off t' yowes' backs for ten mile around.
So I reckoned I'd just sit down for a bit on t' bench I'd made an' rest misen. Efter a while I gat agate once more, an' I'd ommost finished my row of potates when my fork gat howd o' summat big. At first I thowt it were happen a gert stone that I'd left i' t' grund, but it were nowt o' sort. 'Twere a potate, sure enough, but I'd niver set eyes on owt like it afore, nor thee either.
They're the gran-childer o' Mother Demdike o' Pendle, the greatest witch i' these parts, an childer o' Bess Device, who's nah much better. Ask me to witness agen 'em, that's aw." "Howd thy tongue, woman, or ey'n drown thee," muttered Jem, in a tone of deep menace. "Ye canna, mon, if ey'm the witch ye ca' me," rejoined Nance. "Jennet's turn'll come os weel os mine, one o' these days.
'It's got th' cowd in't, that's what it is; it's th' rheumatics, I speck. Yak howd on me, I'll help yo down. And with much coaxing on his part and many cries and outbursts on hers he got her up at last, and out of the den. He had tied his tin box across his back, and Louie, with the rugs wrapped about her, clung, limping, and with teeth chattering, on to his arm.
As for Louie, during the description of the Queen's dress she had drunk in every word with a greedy attention, her changing eyes fixed on the speaker's face. When he stopped, however, she drew a long breath. 'It's aw lees! she said scornfully. 'Howd your tongue, Louie! cried David, angrily. But 'Lias took no notice. He was talking again very fast, but incoherently.
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