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When they had finished their tea, and Dick, from the sweetstuff counter, had crammed into already burdened pockets two half-pound packets of chocolate, the girl led them to the further gate of her father's paddock, whence she indicated the highest point of the ridge over which "T' owd Drovers' Track" threaded its way. "Howd eyes on t' lofty knob of 'un," she said, "and thou'lt not stray."
"Indeed!" exclaimed Nicholas. "What, is the poor girl bewitched?" "Bewitched to death that's all," said Potts. "Eigh poor Meary! hoo's to be berried here this mornin," observed Bess, emptying the bottle of sherris into a pot, and placing the latter on the fire. "And you think she was forespoken?" said Nicholas, addressing her. "Folk sayn so," replied Bess; "boh I'd leyther howd my tung about it."
The utmost astonishment was evinced by all at the transformation, and the bystanders who had spoken before, now cried out loudly "We know them perfectly now. They are the two Devices." By this time an officer, attended by a party of halberdiers, had mounted the boards, and the two prisoners were delivered to their custody by Nicholas. "Howd!" cried the man; "Ey win no longer deny my name.
And somewhere under the loose slide-rock on that hill lies the lode from which this comes! Do you sabe now?" Red gurgled his full comprehension. "Why yuh damned ole foxy gran'pa! I orter knowed thet yuh wouldn't let thet swab do yuh! But howd' yuh come to be dealin' with Matlock? I been a heap oneasy in my mind about that."
Hoo's noather feyther nor mother, nor nought i'th world to tak to, but what aw can spare for her, an' this is a poor shop to come to for help. Aw'm uncle to her." "Well," said my friend, "and cannot you manage to keep her?" "God bless yo!" replied the old man, getting warm, "Aw cannot keep mysel'. Aw will howd eawt as lung as aw can; but, yo know, what'll barely keep one alive 'll clem two.
They had been eating and listening to the conversation outside, till it reached its climax in the following words: "What, man? You don't know what he says." "What he says!" chuckled the wheelwright. "Ay, I heerd what he said; a whole heap o' bad words till I checked him, and let him feel he'd best howd his tongue." "But you know what he says about who shot at him?"
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