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"What's matter with thee?" said his mother as he entered the house. "Nowt's matter wi' me." "Ay, but there is. Thou'st bin' drinkin' agean." "Weel, and what if I have? It's cost me nowt." "Ay, I know: thou'st been to the Thorn and Thistle after that Polly Powell lass. Ay, you ninny. I thought you looked higher nor that. What about Alice Lister?"
But nowt's worth a quarrel, my dear NOWT. I remember Harold's grandfeyther he were th' second of us, your grandfeyther were the eldest, and I were the youngest I remember Harold's grandfeyther chasing his wife all over th' town wi' a besom a week after they were married. 'With a besom! murmured Maud, pained and forgetting to cry. 'Harold's grandfather, not mine?
"Nowt's far to your kind!" said the man, flicking his whip. "An' ye'll meet a bobby or so on the road!" On he went, and Helmsley without further parley resumed his tramp. Presently, reaching the clump of trees he had seen in the distance, he moved into their refreshing shade.
There was a fisher ahent's that strak' in wi' the chorus an' made an' awfu' gutter o't. He yalpit awa' a' on ae note, juist like's he was roarin' to somebody to lowse the penter; an' though Sandy keepit gaen, he was in a richt raise. "That roarin' nowt's juist makin' a pure soss o't," he says, when we finished.
"Ye may be a jail-bird or a missioner, they'se much of a muchity, an' goes on the road lookin' quite simple like, an' the simpler they seems the deeper they is. White 'airs an' feeble legs 'elps 'em along considerable, nowt's better stock-in-trade than tremblin' shins. Or ye might be a War-office neglect, ye looks a bit set that way." "What's a War-office neglect?" asked Helmsley, laughing.
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