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Updated: July 9, 2025

Thus one night I heard a woman's voice in the dark, very tired and faint, say, "It's a long hill!" to which the surly tones of a man replied: "'Ten't no longer than 'twas, is it?" Brutishness like this, however, is quite the exception. As a sample of what is normal, take the following scraps of talk overheard one summer night some years ago.

George Sturt - Change in the Village