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We'll do it quiet and comfortable and we'll do it reight." "Odd character!" remarked Byner, when he and Prydale went away. "Useful man for a job of that sort," said the detective laconically. "Now then are we going to let anybody else know what we're after Mr. Eldrick or Mr. Collingwood, for instance? Do you want them, or either of them, to be present?"
He began coming to my place of a Sunday evenin', d'ye see, gentlemen? he'd walk across t' valley up there to Whitcliffe and stop an hour or two, enjoyin' hisself. Well, now, as you're no doubt well aweer, Mr. Eldrick, he were a reight hand at talkin', were yon Parrawhite he'd t' gift o' t' gab reight enough, and talked well an' all.
Why, I should as soon hev expected to see me and my missus fight. Mester Dick, I'm 'bout 'shamed o' yow." "I'm ashamed of myself, Hicky, and I feel as if I was never going to be happy again," cried Dick. "Nay, nay, lad, don't talk like that," said the big wheelwright. "Why, doctor says he's sewer that he can bring squire reight again, and what more do you want?"
"And fishing-lines," said Dick. "And gun," said Tom. "Ay, lads," said Dave gravely; "seems aw reight to you, but it be lonesome sometimes when the bootherboomps get running out o' the reeds in the dark evenings and then go sailing high up and round and round." "Oh, I should like that!" said Dick. "Nay, lad, yow wouldn't. It would scar yow.
Richard, said the woman, in broad dialect, when the child had gone up half a dozen times; she was nervous, and kept holding out her arms involuntarily. 'Ah doan't ovver much fancy that kind o' laakin. What's more, he's allus reight dahn fratchy after a turn o' that. See nah, he'll nivver want you to stop. Do a' done nah, Mr. Richard.
'Twere bigger nor my heead; nay, 'twere bigger nor a fooit-ball." "Somebody wanted to have a bit of fun with you, Abe," I interrupted, "and had buried a vegetable-marrow in your potato-patch." "Nay, it were a potate reight enough, an' I were fair capped when I'd getten howd on it wi' my two hands. 'I'll show this to Sam Holroyd, I said to misen.
I looked at t' sty, and then at t' pig, an' then I felt t' pig, an' he were reight fat. An' when I'd felt t' pig I turned round to see if t' 'lotment were fairly mine, and theer stood t' lad that had telled me to bury t' potate. "'Well, he says, 'is owt wrang wi' t' pig? "'Nay, there's nowt wrang wi' t' pig, but how did he get here?
I could see t' leet-house at Spurn, and reight i' front o' me were Bridlington wi' t' Priory Church and up beyond were fields an' fields of corn wi' farm-houses set amang t' plane-trees an' t' sun-leet glistenin' on their riggins. Efter a while I started to swim back. But it were noan so easy. Tide were agean me an' there were a freshish breeze off t' land.
"Nowt o' t' sort!" retorted the blacksmith. "He'd be safe on t' sound part o' t' bridge it's only a piece on 't that gave way. I say that theer idea wants in-quirin' into. An' theer's another thing what wor that lawyer-clerk chap fro' Barford Pratt doin' about theer? What reight had he to be prowlin' round t' neighbourhood o' that bridge, and at that time?
"No; each take a hand, my lad," said the squire, "and then let's move together for the path as quickly as possible." "Reight!" cried Hickathrift, laconically; and, stooping down, they each took a hand, and half ran half waded through the black boggy mud, till they reached the path from which the young man had strayed. "Poor chap! he were a bit scar'd to find himself in bog."
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