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"Doan't yo go too far on t' fells, missy. It's coomin' on to snaw, an it'll snaw aw neet. Lor bless yer, it's wild here i' winter. An when t' clouds coom down like yon " he pointed up the valley "even them as knaws t' fells from a chilt may go wrang." "Where does this path lead?" said Hester, absently.
'Davy, he said, trembling. Then with a sudden movement he whipped the door to behind him, and shut it close. 'Whist! he said, putting his old finger to his lip. 'T' servant's just settlin her i' t' kitchen. She's noa ready yet she's been terr'ble bad th' neet. Coom yo here. And he descended the steps with infinite care, and led David to the wood-shed.
They looked grave upon it awhile, then Daniel took heart and said, 'A think we'd done a'most enough last neet; but men's not to be stopped wi' a straw when their blood is up; still it's hard lines to call out t' sojers, even if they be but militia. So what we seven hatched in a dark entry has ta'en a lord to put a stop to 't! continued he, chuckling a little, but more faintly this time.
'Whoiver can it be, this time o' neet? said Margaret and she looked at the old clock 'why, it's close on middle-neet! She hesitated a moment, then she went to the door, and bent her mouth to the chink 'Who are yo? What d' yo want? she asked, in a distinct but low voice, so as not to disturb 'Lias. No answer for a minute. Then her ear caught some words from outside.
He could hear the old man's plaintive cogitations over the strange experience which had blanched his hair and beard and brought him a visible step nearer to his end. "Soombody towd my owd woman tudther day, Misther Helbeck, at yoong Mason o' t' Browhead had been i' th' park that neet. Mappen tha'll tell me it was soom gell body he'd been coortin. Noa! he doan't gaa about wi' the likes o' thattens!
Pushing his way through the assemblage, he stood before the magistrate. "If yo want a witness agen that foul murtheress and witch, Alice Nutter, ca' me, Master Roger Nowell," he said. "Ey con tay my Bible oath that the whole feace o' this keawntry has been chaunged sin yester neet, by her hondywark. Ca' me also to speak to her former life to her intimacy wi' Mother Demdike an owd Chattox.
Before I could reply, the sound of approaching footsteps came upon our ears. Then, they stopt, a few yards off; and a clear voice trolled out a snatch of country song: "Owd shoon an' stockins, An' slippers at's made o' red leather! Come, Betty, wi' me, Let's shap to agree, An' hutch of a cowd neet together. "Mash-tubs and barrels!
'Yo've got him! he's hid soomwhere yo know whar he is! I'll not stay here if yo conno find him! It wor her fault' and she threw out a shaking hand towards her aunt 'she druv him out last neet an Dawsons took him in an iverybody's cryin shame on her! And if yo doan't mak her find him she knows where he is I'll not stay in this hole! I'll kill her! I'll burn th' house! I'll
So I said to misel: 'I'll milk for t' King. He's turned teetotal, has t' King, sin t' war started, and I telled t' cows all about it t' neet afore. 'Ye mun do your best, cushies, to-morn', I said. 'T' King'll be wantin' a sup o' milk to his ham and eggs, and I reckon 'twill do him more gooid nor his pint o' beer, choose how. An' just you think on that gentle-fowks has tickle bellies.
'It 'll be summut to think on i' t' lock-up how two able-bodied fellys were so afeared on t' chap as reskyed them honest sailors o' Saturday neet, as they mun put him i' gyves, and he sixty-two come Martinmas, and sore laid up wi' t' rheumatics.
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