prishioners

Updated: May 6, 2025

Here we be come up to Lon'on a thinkin' to better ourselves not wantin' no great things sich we don't look for to get but jest thinkin' as how it wur time' as th' parson is allus a tellin' his prishioners, to lay by a shillin' or two to keep us out o' th' workus, when 't come on to rain, an' let us die i' the open like, where a poor body can breathe! that's all as we was after! an' here, sin' ever we come, fust one shillin' goes, an' then another shillin' goes as we brought with us, till we 'ain't got one, as I may almost say, left!

George MacDonald - Weighed and Wanting