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When tests of this kind were going, he could but lie low. However, David's answer, after a bit, suggested an opening to him. 'Yo've a rare deal o' book-larnin for a farmin lad, Davy. If yo wor at a trade now, or a mill-hand, or summat o' that soart, yo'd ha noan so mich time for readin as yo ha now. The boy looked at him askance, with his keen black eyes. His uncle puzzled him.
"She's got too much pie-jaw for me," said Tom sulkily. "I'm noan goin' to be a Methody parson." "Thou'st goin' to be a bigger fool than I thought tha ever could be," retorted his mother angrily. "That tak's a bit o' doin'," replied Tom as he fumbled with his boot laces. "Thou'st gi'en up a nice lass for a brazen-faaced 'uzzy; thou'rt an addle-'eaded ninny. Can'st'a see?"
It noan seems reet that thee and me should be sittin' by th' fire, and little Job yonder cowd i' th' shadow. Let's pool up th' settle to th' fire; he's one on us, though he's deead. 'Let him alone, lass; he's better off nor them as wants fire; there's no cowd wheer he's goan. Rising from her chair, and turning the sheet once more from off the boy's face, the mother said: 'Where hasto goan, lad?
Why, he 'ud noan be wick now if it hadn't ha' been for me. Theer, my boy, howd up! Theer, we'se tuck in thy wing for thee, and cover thee up warm an' gradely 'tisn't everybody as 'ud be dressin' up a gander i' their own clooes. Do you know what 'ud do this 'ere bird rale good? Just a drop o' sperrits to warm his in'ards for him that's what he wants.
She was neither fair nor fond: a predominance of muscle and a certain rough deftness of hand were her chief charms. Ordinary sentiment would have been thrown away upon her; and, fortunately, she was spared it. "She's noan hurt wi' good looks, our Bess," her father remarked with graceful chivalrousness on more than one occasion, "but hoo con heave a'most as much as I con, an' that's summat."
Halstead; I'm glad to be here. It's a grand night. And looking through the open doorway at the great expanse of snow-covered moor, he said, 'What a beautiful world God's world is is it not? Shut that dur afore th' kitchen's filled wi' snow. When yo're as owd as me yo'll noan be marlockin' i' snow at this time o' neet. What's life to young uns is death to owd uns, yo' know.
'Nay, lad; they put it i' th' hoile because it's noan good. 'Then it's summat like mi dad when I'm naughty, an' he says he'll put me i' th' cellar hoile. 'But he never does does he, lad? asked the grandmother anxiously. 'Nowe, gronny. He nobbud sez he will. And then, after a pause, he continued, 'But, gronny, if God sez He'll put 'em in He'll do as He sez willn't He?
It 'll tak' some watter and grace to mak' him ought like, I reckon. But they tell me he's takken to gien his brass away. It 'll noan dry th' een o' th' poor fo'k he's made weep, tho' will it, Mr. Penrose? 'Perhaps not, Mrs. Halstead; but Moses is an altered man. 'And noan afore it wur time. But what's that noise in th' yard? It saands like th' colliers.
"After a while t' groans gat easier, and then t' local started singin' in a low voice, 'Rock of Ages. But Sam would have noan o' his singin'. So we just waited to see what would happen. Well, after a while t' groans stopped, an' Sam lifted up his heead an' looked round.
'Mother, stammered Matt, 'Miriam has summat to tell yo'. 'Nay, lad, thaa may tell it thisel, said Miriam. 'Happen thaa cornd for shame, Miriam, stammered Matt. 'I durnd know as I've ought to be ashamed on, but it seems as though thaa hedn't th' pluck. The old woman grew impatient, and, supposing she was being fooled, rose from the table, and said: 'I want to know noan o' your secrets.
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