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'Very like a'st not see tha again, Davie. We niver know, Livin's hard soomtimes soa's deein, folks say. I'm often freet'nt of deein' but I should na be. Theer's noan so mich peace here, and we knaw that wi' the Lord theer's peace. He gave a long sigh all his character was in it so tortured was it and hesitating.

Every time Her Gracious Majesty gets a new grandchild or great-grandchild, Canon, he cooms an' says, 'Margaret, have you any more chickens as wants names? An' soomtimes the one christening 'ull do for a whole brood; they royal childer has sich a mony names, ye know."

I asked, after a pause, during which she had moved her stool from Eliza to roan Anne. "Nay, I can't reckon 'em all up," she replied. "Soomtimes it's weddin's an' soomtimes it's buryin's; then there's lile barns that's just bin weaned, and badly fowks i' bed." "And will you sometimes milk for a lady I know that lives in Leeds?"

Soomtimes I think he knows t' boys are dead an then soomtimes he frets 'at they doan't coom an see him. Fourteen year ago! An I goo on tellin him they'll coom soon. An last week, when I towd him it, I thowt to mysel it wor just th' naked truth! David leant over the gate, pulling at some withered hollyhocks beside it.

'Bless yo, yes. An theer's mony foak 'at think Miss Emily wor a deol cliverer even nor Miss Charlotte. Not but what yo get a bad noshun o' Yorkshire folk fro Miss Emily's bukes soa I'm towd. Bit there's rough doins on t' moors soomtimes, I'll uphowd yo! An Miss Emily had eyes like gimlets they seed reet through a body.

'Louie, couldn't yo be nice to me soomtimes couldn't yo just take an interest, like, yo know as if yo cared a bit couldn't yo? Other gells do. I'm a brute to yo, I know, often, but yo keep aggin an teasin, an theer's niver a bit o' peace. Look here, Loo, yo give up, an I'st give up.

The cart deposited the school-boy in Brathay and started again for Langdale. 'Yo couldna get at Langdale for t' snaw lasst week, said the young farmer, as they turned a corner into the Skelwith Valley. 'T' roads were fair choked wi't. 'It's been an early winter, said Fenwick. 'Aye, and t' Langdales get t' brunt o't. It's wild livin there, soomtimes, i' winter.

Soomtimes 'twere like t' yowlin' o' t' wind i' t' chimley, an' soomtimes 'twere like t' yammerin' o' tewits an' curlews on t' moor. But when t' squirrels heerd t' tune, they gat theirsens into line alang t' boughs, an' there were happen twelve squirrels on ivery bough. Then they gat agate o' lowpin'; they lowped frae tree to tree, reet round t' dub, wi' their tails set straight out behind 'em.

She looked about her helplessly for a means of escape. 'Miss Rosa, he continued, in a husky voice, 'can ye na coom t' think on me? Think ye, I've bin waitin' nigh upon two year for ye. I've watched ye tak oop, first wi' this young fellar, and then wi' that, till soomtimes my heart's fit t' burst.