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Updated: May 19, 2025
It stands out clear-cut from the gradual incline, that peculiar eminence; yet as the Master and Owd Bob debouched on to the Brae it was already invisible in the darkening night.
Men told how the gray dog had outdone Gypsy Jack, the sheep-sneak; how he had cut out a Kenmuir shearling from the very centre of Londesley's pack; and a thousand like stories. The Gray Dogs of Kenmuir have always been equally heroes and favorites in the Daleland. And the confidence of the Dalesmen in Owd Bob was now invincible.
The whole flock broke up and meekly followed the sexton, who strode on before them to the vestry. 'William's a rare way wi un, said his companion to David, following her brother's triumph with looks of admiration. 'I thowt that un wud ha bin harder to shift. David, however, turned upon her with a frown. ''Tis a black shame, he said; 'why conno they let t' owd pew bide?
At last the breathless woman and the cowed man came to a parley, the result of which was that, with a whoop of "pots round," they all crowded back into the ale-house, and we were once more alone on the river. "The ordeal by water and by fire," I said. "Push out, Joe." "Gom! Owd Bess give 'im sock," he replied, and levered the nose of the boat into midstream again.
And Tammas, that polished phrase-maker, was only expressing the feelings of every Dalesman in the room when, one night at the Arms, he declared of Owd Bob that "to ha' run was to ha' won." At which M'Adam sniggered audibly and winked at Red Wull. "To ha' run was to ha' one lickin'; to rin next year'll be to " "Win next year." Tammas interposed dogmatically.
"I should na ha' cared for th' Klondike so much but for him." "But he went away from England when you were a baby." "Th' last toime he coom to Temple Barholm wur when I wur just born. Foak said he coom to ax owd Temple Barholm if he'd help him to pay his debts, an' th' owd chap awmost kicked him out o' doors.
Her voice rose to a kind of cry. "His feyther died ov it, and his grandfeyther afore that. His grandfeyther wor found dead i the roadside, after they'd made him blind-drunk at owd Morse's public-house, where the butty wor reckonin with im an his mates. But he'd never ha gone near the drink if they'd hadn't druv him to't, for he wasn't inclined that way.
'I'll tell yo' what it is, owd lass. I shornd hev to leave yo' agen, and his arm stole round the little neck, and he drew the sorrowful face to his own, and kissed it. 'But tell yor owd mon what's up wi yo'. 'Ne'er mind naa, Matt; I'll tell thee sometime, sobbed the wife. 'But I mun know naa, lass, or there'll be th' hangments to play.
She disgraced herseln everyways, bitter and bad. She coom back, she coom back, she coom back. What could I do t' hinder her? I ha' walked the streets nights long, ere ever I'd go home. I ha' gone t' th' brigg, minded to fling myseln ower, and ha' no more on't. I ha' bore that much, that I were owd when I were young. Mrs.
"Yo'll not live to be a hunderd, Tammas Thornton, nor near it," said Sam'l brutally. "I'll live as long as some, I warrant," the old man replied with spirit. "I'll live to see Cup back i' Kenmuir, as I said afore." "If yo' do," the other declared with emphasis, "Sam'l Todd niver spake a true word. Nay, nay, lad; yo're owd, yo're wambly, your time's near run or I'm the more mistook."
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