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As he turned over a bridge, and then into his own gate on the further side, he passed an old labourer who was scraping the mud from the road. "Have you seen any carriage go by just lately, Reuben?" "Noa " said the man. "Theer's been none this last hour an more nobbut carts, an t' Whinthrupp bus." Helbeck's pace slackened.
We're goin' to cut the big meadow to the right as you go to the village. Come to the top of the hill, and I'll show it you." "Nay, I'll not go near field if they're all theer. I went once, an' farmer he said he'd set dog at me; an' th' lads began o' jokin' an' laughin' at me. Aye, I get mad wi' nobbut thinkin' on't."
"Thou's gotten ower mony yowes to thy stint, Thomas Moon," he would say to a farmer who was trying to get the better of his neighbours. "Nay, Peregrine, I reckon I've nobbut eighty, and they're lile 'uns at that." "Eighty's thy stint, but thou's gotten eighty-twee; thou can tak heam wi' thee twee o' yon three-yeer-owds, an' mind thou counts straight next yeer."
But they're nobbut wortchin' four days a week, neaw; besides they'n enough to do for their own. Aw make no acceawnt o' slotchin' up an' deawn o' this shap, like a foo. It would sicken a dog, it would for sure. Aw go a fishin' a bit neaw an' then; an' aw cotter abeawt wi' first one thing an' then another; but it comes to no sense. Its noan like gradely wark.
Ben and me hev been so much to each other, that it comes a bit hard to hev to step aside for a lass as one doesn't care much for." She put her checked apron to her eyes, and wiped away a few tears. "But Ben can never forget what you did for him." "It was Mary after a' that saved him. I nobbut prayed night and day. She brought the magistrate and t' constable. Men don't count much on prayer."
"You don't know as I came near bein champion for the County lasst year no, I'll reckon you don't. Oh! that cup's nowt that's nobbut Whinthorpe sports, lasst December. Maybe there'll be a better there, by-and-by." The young giant grinned, as he took up the cup and pointed with assumed indifference to its inscription. "What football?" said Laura, putting up her hand to hide a yawn. "Oh!
"Tammas, yo' know it's a queer thing awthegither! What are they coomin' here for at all?" "Well, master's coom into t' property, an' I'm thinkin' it's nobbut his dooty to coom an' see it. It's two year sen he came into 't; an' he's done nowt but tak' t' rents, an' turn off men, an' clutter up t' house wi' boxes, iver sense. It's time, I'm thinkin', as he did coom an' luke into things a bit."
"He didn't know what to turn to after we sowd th' things," said she; "but he's takken to cheer-bottomin', for he doesn't want to lie upo' folk for relief, if he can help it. He doesn't get much above a cheer, or happen two in a week, one week wi' another, an' even then he doesn't olez get paid, for folks ha' not brass. It runs very hard with us, an' I'm nobbut sickly."
She took her industrial lesson ill, with much haste and inattention, so that once when the director and his nephew fell behind, the great man, whose speech to his kinsman in private was often little less broad than Mrs. Mason's own said scornfully: "An I doan't think much o' your fine cousin, mon! she's nobbut a flighty miss." The young man said nothing.
"You are come into deep waters, Martha." "Ay, I am; but there's One on t' water wi' me. I hev his hand, and he's none going to let me sink. And good-night to you, dearies, now; for I want to be alone wi' him. He isn't far off; you can tak' t' word of a sorrowful woman that he lets himsen be found, if nobbut you're i' earnest seeking him."
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