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And, if detected, they did not think a dose of the strap by any means too high a price to pay for their fun. For William's sufferings under that instrument of discipline were not to be measured by his doleful howlings and roarings, nor even by his ready tears. "What be 'ee so voolish for as to say nothin' when her wollops 'ee?" he asked of Jan, in a very friendly spirit, one day.
Joseph Bold fairly groaned: "Good Lard! I never did think to hear 'ee talk so voolish a sensible body like ye did always use to seem! Dear heart alive! Gold-fish! And a poll parrot! Well, Mary, I did think as a body o' your years could content herself wi' live things as had a bit more sense in 'em nor that." "Oh, I dare say," returned his spouse sarcastically.
I was feared on her, Gearge, I can tell 'ee; but I tried my luck again. 'What's a molar, Dame? says I. ''Tis a wus word than t'other, says she; 'and, if 'ee axes me any more voolish questions, I'll break thee yead for 'ee. Do 'ee think 'tis a very bad word, Gearge?" added Abel, with a rather indefensible curiosity. "I never heard un," said George.
I be mortal stoopid, sir, but I'd work my fingers to the bwoan for the likes of you, Master Lake!" George stayed on, and though the very next time the windmiller was absent his "voolish" assistant did not get so much as a toll-dish of corn ground to flour, he was so full of penitence and promises that he weathered that tempest and many a succeeding one.
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