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And how it's a bad world with no chance in it for poor folks, when iverybody knows most of the rich folks begun poor, and if there's no chance for poor folks, how comes them that's rich now to be rich when they started poor? And then the nixt step is to make them that's content out of humor, rilin' 'em up with wishin' for what they've got no business with, seein' they hain't earned it.
"Enclosure was made by order o' t' commissioners." "Aye, I know all about t' commissioners farmers hand i' glove wi' t' lawyers frae t' towns, and, aboon all, a government that's i' t' landlords' pockets. What I say is that t' common land belongs iverybody, an' sike-like as thee have gotten no reight to fence it in." "Happen we're doin' it for t' good o' t' country," argued Timothy.
"There's a man by the name of Mike," said Molly, "a nager, though you wouldn't think it from his name. He helps me sometimes, an' he helps iverybody else other times." "Is that the man?" said La Fleur, looking out of the window. "That's him, mum," said Molly; "he's jest goin' to the woodpile with his axe."
"That neet there was a storm at Cohen-eead the likes o' which had niver bin seen theer afore. There was thunner an' leetnin', and a gert sough o' wind that com yowlin' across t' moor an' freetened iverybody wellnigh out o' their five senses. Fowks wakkened up an' said 'twere Judgment Day, an' T' Man Aboon had coom to separate t' sheep frae t' goats.
Ay, well! they're out o' hearin' o' my moralities; I'd better find a lamiter like mysen to preach to, for it's not iverybody has t' luck t' clargy has of saying their say out whether folks likes it or not. He put the baskets carefully away with much of such talk as this addressed to himself while he did so.
He's loike to have the consate, so he is, take him down as a body will. But there's wan good thing about it. While he's studyin' to beat us all on the talkin' he's lettin' the little b'ys alone famous. He didn't never do much to 'em, but he jist riled 'em completely, so he did, and made 'em cross at iverybody." A month went along very quietly and, following that, another month.
"They're sign-boards t' point th' way that iverybody knows as well as th' nose on his face!" "Good-by," Anna said, as they prepared to leave. "Good-by, an' God save ye both kindly," were Willie's parting words. He adjusted the wire protectors to his eyes and the sojourners went on down the road. They found a mossy bank and unpacked their dinner. "Quare, isn't he?" Jamie said.
He made as though throwing her from him, with a gesture of contempt that stung her to life. 'Oh, Charley! she cried, springing to him, 'dunnot cut me to the quick; have pity on me, though he had none. I did so love thee; it was my very heart-strings as gave way when they told me thou was drowned feyther, and th' Corneys, and all, iverybody.
"And 'Lave that, you omadhawn, sez Tishy, wid the look of a divil on her, what foolery are you at now? 'You thievin' miscreant, sez I to her, 'it's shankin' off to the pólis I'll be, and layin' a heavy charge agin you for robbin' and stealin', and you after lavin' the innicent child there and th' ould man to starve widout a penny to their names, sez I. 'Faugh! sez she, 'for that matter the fever's liker to have took her off agin now wid no throuble to be starvin', and maybe a good job too for iverybody. And 'Be this and be that, sez I, 'if I thought there was e'er a fear of it, 'tis wringin' your ugly neck round I'd be this instiant. 'Let go of that bag, sez she, sweepin' up some of the shillin's that was spilt.
Didn't I be tellin' you, Pat, that I knew there was them in this town would help me that way? But what makes you all look so glum? Didn't you foind the school foine the day? Niver moind! You ain't acquainted yet. And jist remember that iverybody has a deal to bear in this world, and the poor most of all. If anybody does you a rale wrong, come tell me of it.
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