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"You're too fond of settling other people's business." "Yes, Mr Ellis, sir, that's what I tell him," said old Hannah anxiously. "Tchah!" growled old Tummus, giving his body a jerk. "Very well then, sir, he thowt he were, and it got on his mind like that he were all in the darkness, and it's my belief as he couldn't bear it, and went and made a hole in the water so as to be out of his misery."
"Well, well, who'd ha' thowt it would ever come to this?" he sighed, shaking his head mournfully as he came in sight of the place of execution. "But, after all, ye richly desarve it, John Molloy, for you've bin a bad lot the greater part o' your life!"
He found himself between two fat farmers, and this was the conversation broad Lincolnshire, of course: 'Did tha hear Lady Mildred Wharton say them things, Willum? 'Aye, a did. 'What did tha think, Willum? 'What did tha think, George? 'Wal, aa thowt Laady Mildred Wharton wor a graät fule, Willum, if tha asks me. 'I'll uphowd tha, George!
We had a grand time here in September at t' dippin'. Yo'd never ha' thowt there was so mony folk about" the girl went on, civilly, making talk. "I never saw a single house, or a single light, on the drive from the station last night," said Mrs. Melrose, in her fretful voice. "Where are all the people?" "Well, there ain't many!" laughed Thyrza. "It's a lonesome place this is.
The doctor says I can't get it, so there's no sort o' fear. I wur young and simple then, and thowt doctors never made a mistake. Well, sur, in two months more I were down wi' small-pox, and when I got up again I wur a sight to behold. As soon as I wur fit to be seen I went to Susan to git a mite o' comfort, and then I see 'er a-courtin' wi' the coachman.
'I see'd 'em plain enough, tho' they didn't see me I wor keepin' snug agen 't wall it wor a moonlit night, that, he says. 'Well, I says, 'an' what now? 'Why, he says, 'd'yer think I could get owt o' this reward for tellin that theer? So I thowt pretty sharp then, d'ye see, mister. 'I'll tell yer what, mi lad, I says.
"Nay," replied Abe the optimist; "but 'twere not a proper sort of dream nawther. I've thowt a vast about it off an' on, an' I reckon 'twere a dream wi' a meanin' tul it. 'Twere like Pharaoh's dream o' t' fat an' lean beasts. Happen one day I'll find a Joseph that'll tell me what it all means!" Coals of Fire
"I dunnot know," he faltered, and then, staggering again, caught at her dress with feeble hands "Dunnot yo'," he whispered, sinking forward "dunnot yo' let no one come anigh me." She flung a strong arm around him, and saved him from a heavy fall. His head dropped helplessly against her breast. "He's fainted dead away," she said: "he mun ha' been worse than he thowt fur."
"I daren't tell you, yer honour, for fear I'll make another mistake. I thowt, sur, as it would take a hangel with black wings to nick me like this 'ere, and now I've bin done by somebody; but it's the waccinatin', yer honour it's the waccination. In the Proverbs of Job we read, 'fool and his money soon parted, and so we can see 'ow true the teachin' is to-day." "But what is to be done, Simon?"
"It don't matter much what you thowt o' me, old man," returned the cowboy, somewhat sharply; "an', as to fair-play, there's a lot of men here who don't agree wi' your humbuggin' notions about temperance an' tee-totalism more of 'em, maybe, than you think. These want to have the drink, an' I've come to give it 'em. I see nothin' unfair in that."
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