jiner's

Updated: May 7, 2025

For the works o' God there ain't one on'em as I can see downright well managed tip-top jiner's work, as I may say; leastways, Now stop a bit, grannie; don't trip a man up, and then say as he fell over his own dog, leastways, I don't say about the moon an' the stars an' that; I dessay the sun he do get up the werry moment he's called of a mornin', an' the moon when she ought to for her night-work, I ain't no 'stronomer strawnry, and I ain't heerd no complaints about them; but I do say as how, down here, we ha' got most uncommon bad weather more'n at times; and the walnuts they turns out, every now an' then, full o' mere dirt; an' the oranges awful.

George MacDonald - The Vicar's Daughter