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He set up his fratching at breakfast acause his porridge was burnt, and kept at it all day. Nowt that I did for him were reet; if I filled his pipe, he said I'd putten salt in his baccy, and if I went out to feed the cauves, he told me I left the doors oppen, and wanted to give him his death o' cowd. Evening came at last, and by nine o'clock I were left alone i' the kitchen.
Maggie's eyes dropped again. "Hoo should I know?" she asked innocently. "Nor care, neither, I s'pose," he said in reproachful accents. "Yo' want me me to go and leave yo', and go reet awa'; I see hoo 'tis. Yo' wouldna mind, not yo', if yo' was niver to see pore David agin. I niver thowt yo' welly like me, Maggie; and noo I know it." "Yo' silly lad," the girl murmured, knitting steadfastly.
'Theaw knows nought about music. That organ musn't be touched till thi father comes whoam, mind that, neaw.... But, sartainly, said Betty, takin th' candle up again, 'I cannot help lookin' at this thing. It's sich a quare un. It looks like summat belongin' maut-grindin', or summat o' that. 'Well, said Robin, 'it has a bit o' that abeawt it, sartainly.... But yo'n find it's o' reet.
'T' little un had gone for a walk wi' Jeremiah Foster, an' he were drawn for to go round t' edge o' t' cliff, wheere they's makin' t' new walk reet o'er t' sea.
"And see, the wizard hath a black hound with him! It may be his wife, in that likeness." "Naw, ey knoas t' hount reet weel, Feyther Haydocke," replied the forester; "it's a Saint Hubert, an' a rareun fo' fox or badgert. Odds loife, feyther, whoy that's t' black bandyhewit I war speaking on."
'You're reet; that's Moses' voice, or I'm a Jew. What's he doin' aat a neet like this, wi' Oliver's dog? I thought he'd bed enough o' that beast to last his lifetime. The two men were now leaning over a stone wall and looking down into the ravine below. Suddenly Malachi pricked up his ears, and said: 'An' that's Amos's voice an' all.
'An then theer's nowt moor as a can remember, an your aunt ull be wearyin; an it's but reet she should know now, at wonst, abeawt t' money a've saved this four year, an t' letter to Mr. Gurney.
"They'll be reet in a varra few minutes at after yo gotten that into 'em," said he. As evening came on the weather settled into one continuous shower, and I left Preston in the heavy rain, weary, and thinking of what I had seen during the day. Since then I have visited the town again, and I shall say something about that visit hereafter. The rain had been falling heavily through the night.
"Spies, yo call us?" with a finger like a dart, threatening the enemy "Aye; an' yo're aboot reet! I and my friends we have been trackin' and spyin' for weeks past. We knew those men, those starvin' women and bairns, were bein' sold, but we couldn't prove it. Now we've come at the how and the why of it! And we'll make it harder for men like you to sell 'em again!
Louie's share that wor different; we had a reet to that, she bein a growin girl, and doin nowt mich for her vittles. Fro the time when yo should ha had it whether for wages or for 'prenticin an yo could na ha it, because Hannah had set hersen agen it, a saved it for tha, owt o' t' summer cattle moastly, without tellin nobory, so as not to mak words.
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