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But your father looks sadly, Mester Tom, sir. He don't wear as I should like to see un. "Rheumatism, Hicky; that's all. He'll be better soon. I say, what's that a summer-house?" said Tom, pointing. "That, Mester Tom! Why, you know?" "Why, it's the old punt!" cried Dick. "Ay, it's the owd poont, Mester Dick. What games yow did hev in her too, eh?" "Yes, Hicky," said Dick with a sigh.
"Well," said Peacock, "thot beats mae. I sud navver a thought thot t' owd maare could a got away from t' doctor's horse. Nat ef e'd a mind t' paass 'er." "No," said Gwenda. She was thinking, "It's Mary. It's Mary. How could she, when she knew, when she was on her honor not to think of him?" And she remembered a conversation she had had with her stepmother two months ago, when the news came.
There'll be somebody after this i'th mornin'. An' they had some rare fun th' next day, afore they geet these things swapt to their gradely places. However, th' last thing o' Saturday neet th' weshin'-machine wur brought up fro th' clerk's, an' th' organ wur takken to th' chapel." "Well, well," said th' owd woman; "they geet 'em reet at the end of o', then?"
It was a bad lambing time, and Mike and Amos were about the farm all day and most o' the neet, looking after the lambs that had lossen their yowes. Owd Jerry had threaped shameful the day afore; the weather had been that bad he'd not been able to go down to 'The Craven Heifer.
"Yes, my lad; out on the watter," said the farmer; "and that med me say to mysen: What's any one doing wi' a light out on the watter at this time? and I could on'y think as they wanted it to set fire to some one's plaace, and I couldn't stop abed and think that. So I got up, and went down to the shore, got into my owd punt, and loosed her, and went out torst wheer I'd seen the light."
"I mean that, although it had no heart, the staple was tired and worn out just as you are, and so I brought it to you," and I slipped the rusty bit of iron into the old man's trembling palm. "O Lord !" he began in a fervent voice, "O dear Lord! I got it, Lord th' owd stapil I be ready to come to Thee, an' j'yful j'yful! an' for this mercy, an' benefit received blessed be Thy name. Amen!"
Maggie within the kitchen heard, however, but paid no heed; for her heart was hard against the boy, who of late, though he never addressed her, had made himself as unpleasant in a thousand little ways as only David M'Adam could. At that moment the Master came stalking into the yard, Owd Bob preceding him; and as the old dog recognized his visitor he bristled involuntarily.
Rarely had such fiery élan been seen on the sides of the Pike; and with it the young dog combined a strange sobriety, an admirable patience, that justified, indeed, the epithet. "Owd." Silent he worked, and resolute; and even in those days had that famous trick of coaxing the sheep to do his wishes; blending, in short, as Tammas put it, the brains of a man with the way of a woman.
As she raised her wrinkled face, crowned with white hair and covered with a coloured kerchief, a gray shawl wrapped round her lean and stooping shoulders, she smiled a welcome, and bade him be seated. 'So yo'n put away owd Chris, she said, as soon as Mr. Penrose had taken his seat by her side.
"She comes out of this yare pit wheer t'owd man was chucked, and wanders about the wood and th' rise, a-yellin' somefin awful. It's nowt to hear her we've all heerd her for that matter but to see her is to meet a bloody and violent end within the month. That's why they call this 'ere pit 'the Shrieking Pit. I'm thinkin' that owd Mr.
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