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Updated: May 11, 2025
Warbottom said as Greenhow air was too keen, and they were goin' to Bradford, to Jesse's brother David, as worked i' a mill, and I mun hold up like a man and a Christian, and she'd pray for me. Well, and they went away, and the preacher that same back end o' th' year were appointed to another circuit, as they call it, and I were left alone on Greenhow Hill.
She gave me a drink out of a china mug wi' gold letters 'A Present from Leeds' as I looked at many and many a time at after. 'Yo're to lie still while Dr. Warbottom comes, because your arm's broken, and father has sent a lad to fetch him. He found yo' when he was goin' to work, an' carried you here on his back, sez she. 'Oa! sez I; an' I shet my eyes, for I felt ashamed o' mysen.
'An' then Dr. Warbottom comes ridin' up, an' Jesse Roantree along with 'im. He was a high-larned doctor, but he talked wi' poor folk same as theirsens. "What's ta big agaate on naa?" he sings out. "Brekkin' tha thick head?" An' he felt me all ovver. "That's none broken. Tha' nobbut knocked a bit sillier than ordinary, an' that's daaft eneaf."
"An' then Dr. Warbottom comes ridin' up, an' Jesse Roantree along with 'im. He was a high-larned doctor, but he talked wi' poor folk same as theirsens. 'What's ta bin agaate on naa? he sings out. 'Brekkin' tha thick head? An' he felt me all ovver. 'That's none broken.
'Liza Roantree's for neither on us, nor for nobody o' this earth. Dr. Warbottom says and he knows her, and her mother before her that she is in a decline, and she cannot live six months longer. He's known it for many a day. Steady, John! Steady!" says he.
'Yo' see, I was a young chap i' them days, and had seen naught o' life, let alone death, as is allus a-waitin'. She telled me as Dr. Warbottom said as Greenhow air was too keen, and they were goin' to Bradford, to Jesse's brother David, as worked i' a mill, and I mun hold up like a man and a Christian, and she'd pray for me.
She gave me a drink out of a china mug wi' gold letters "A Present from Leeds" as I looked at many and many a time at after. "Yo're to lie still while Dr. Warbottom comes, because your arm's broken, and father has sent a lad to fetch him. He found yo' when he was goin' to work, an' carried you here on his back," sez she. "Oa!" sez I; an' I shet my eyes, for I felt ashamed o' mysen.
'Liza Roantree's for neither on us, nor for nobody o' this earth, Dr. Warbottom says and he knows her, and her mother before her that she is in a decline, and she cannot live six months longer. He's known it for many a day. Steady, John! Steady! says he.
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