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"No, mother; there's no fear o' that, as lang's the laird or Miss Lexy's to the fore. They tret me I winna say like ane o' themsel's, but as if they would hae likit me for ane o' themsel's, gien it had pleased the Lord to sen' me their way instead o' yours. They're that guid to me ye canna think!" "Then what's broucht ye the day?" "I beggit for a play-day. I wantit to see An'rew." "Eh, lass!
One evening, as we scholars were returning from a walk, Chloe started a hare, which we surrounded and captured, and carried in triumph to oily Mrs. Atkinson, who begged us a play-day for our success. “On Easter Sunday Mr. Storey always treated us to ‘Pasche eggs.’ They were boiled hard in a concoction of whin-flowers, which rendered them beautifully purple.
The opportunity for going to Danesford was not long in coming, for Black Thompson and Cole, who were the chief colliers in the pit, chose to take a 'play-day' with the rest of their comrades; and the boys and girls employed at the works were obliged to play also, though it involved the forfeiture of their day's wages always a serious loss to Stephen.
Whatever she had done, Alston, in his heart, hoped it would defeat him, and leave him to the rich enjoyment of his play-day office and his books. His mother could realise then that he had done his best, and leave him to a serene progress toward middle age.
Only one, who, having made a play-day of life, turns, at last, to attempt some earnest work, and fails, as he believes, utterly, and then catches a glimpse of unexpected light in the darkness, can understand the impulse given me by that dirty little scroll. It was such happiness as I had never felt before. It made me strangely weak.
So I took up my pen and wrote: Bright the sun this lovely May-day; Youth and love should have their heyday; Every day should be a play-day. Yet mankind will work and worry, Over trifles fuss and flurry, Getting hot as Indian curry. Orators, in such a season, How unreasonable is reason! 'Gainst the sunshine't is a treason. What care I for Gladstone's glories? Hang the Radicals and Tories!
Winton was in the thick of the pick-and-shovel melee, urging it on, when Biggin ran up. "Hi!" he shouted. "Fixin' to take another play-day in Carbonate? Lookee down yonder!" Winton looked and became alive to the possibilities in the turning of a leaf. "Guns!" he yelled; and at the word of command the tools were flung aside, and the track force, over two hundred strong, became an army.
By bribes of gingerbread of her own making, stamped with a royal crown, she tempted their sunny sportiveness beneath the gloomy portal of the Province House, and would often beguile them to spend a whole play-day there, sitting in a circle round the verge of her hoop petticoat, greedily attentive to her stories of a dead world.
At any hour of day or night, in the most distant part of your house, you have but to turn a stop-cock and your red dragon sends you hot water for your need; your washing-day becomes a mere play-day; your pantry has its ever-ready supply; and then, by a little judicious care in arranging apartments and economizing heat, a range may make two or three chambers comfortable in winter weather.
Besides, Sharley, like the rest of them, had not thought as far as that. Then ah then, what toil would not be play-day for the sake of Halcombe Dike? what weariness and wear could be too great, what pain too keen, if they could bear it together? O, you mothers! do you not see that this makes "a' the difference"? You have strength that your daughter knows not of. She gropes and cuts her way alone.
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