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"He's rather like me," said the stranger. "My word, ye don't say so!" gasped Mrs. Whiteside, while her mother, leaning forward, gazed eagerly into his face. "He is very like me," he said brokenly, and then, of a sudden, stretching out his hand he plucked the old woman by the sleeve: "Wakken up, mother," he cried; "mother, 'tis time to wakken up!"
'Hollo! cried John, twitching one end of the dragged veil. 'Coom, wakken oop, will 'ee? After several burrowings into the old corner, and many exclamations of impatience and fatigue, the figure struggled into a sitting posture; and there, under a mass of crumpled beaver, and surrounded by a semicircle of blue curl-papers, were the delicate features of Miss Fanny Squeers.
Francis, it were summat awful what hoo suffered. Oh yes, I know. But, ye see, when I'm sat here all day by mysel', an' when I see th' empty cheer, an' o' neets when I dream hoo's layin' aside o' me, an' then wakken up an' stretch out my arms eh, dear o' me!" Some of the neighbours thought this poor girl's grief excessive.
But when the young sun looked over the level moors for they were on the very top of the heathery creation Jock Gordon made a little hillock of dewy heather to shelter Ralph from the sun. He measured at the same time a hand's breadth in the sky, saying to himself, "I'll wakken the lad when he gets to there!" He was speaking of the sun.
'Then just blo' away into that 'un as lies on the grund, fit to wakken the deead, will'ee, said the man, 'while I stop sum o' this here squealing inside. Cumin', cumin'. Dean't make that noise, wooman.
'Twere t' day afore Easter Sunday an' my father were despert thrang wi' t' lambin' ewes. He hadn't taen off his shoes an' stockins for more nor a week. He'd doze a bit i' his chair by t' fire, an' then he'd wakken up an' leet t' lantern' an' gan out to see if aught ailed t' sheep. He let me bide up for company, an' so as I could warm him a sup o' tea ower t' fire.
"I wonder if you childer can tell me what is t' bird that ligs abed langest?" There was silence for a moment or two, and then Kester Laycock suggested rooks. "Nay," answered Grannie, "rooks are not what I sud call early risers, but they're not t' last birds up, not by a lang way. T' last bird to wakken up an' t' first bird to gan to bed is t' house-sparrow.
So I crossed over and met him, and went close up to him and said, 'Well, what have you to say for yoursel' now? and I gav him a lick under th' ear. He fell down on th' kerbstone and wouldn't get up turned sulky like. There was soon a crowd about, and they tried to wakken him up; but he wouldn't help hisself a bit just sulked and wouldn't stir.
'Wakken up, mother, he'd say; 'mother, it's time to wakken up! Eh, mony a time I fancy I can hear the little voice when I wak' up now, i' this dark dirty place. I keep my e'en shut, an' hark at the birds chirrupin', an' think o' the little hand pluckin' at the sheet, an' the little voice.
We wor a bit sleepy, but we're quite wakken noo. Keep yor shirt on, and we'll do better next time." When the canoes, which were built entirely with sheets of bark, were drawn up on the beach, nothing was found in them but a few sticks, bark paddles, and a gown a lilac cotton gown. "That goon," said Campbell, "has belonged to some white woman thae deevils have murdered.
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