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"But hasn't your cottage been dreadfully wet?" asked Dick, who was poking his finger in a cage full of ferrets. "I say, what are John Warren's ferrets doing here?" "Doin' nothing, and waiting to be took out, that's all, lad." "But wasn't your place horribly wet?" "What care I for a drop o' watter?" said Dave contemptuously.
There's Jerrem at it fro' mornin' to night; and as for uncle, dear sawl! he's as happy as a clam at high watter." "Iss, I reckon," said Mrs. Tucker: "it don't never matter much what goes wrong, so long as uncle gets his fill o' drink. I've said scores o' times uncle's joy 'ud never run dry so long as liquor lasted."
"Well," he continued, "I tugged an' tewed as lang as I could, but my mouth began to get full o' watter, my legs an' airms were dead beat, an' I reckoned that 'twere all ower wi' me. An' then a fearful queer sort o' thing happened me. I were i' my father's farm on t' wold, laikin' wi' my brothers same as I used to do when I were a lile barn. An', what's more, I thowt it were my ninth birthday.
"He lodges with 'Becca Rudd; let's be off," said Liza, clambering into the cart by the step at the shaft. "Come up, father; quick!" "What, Bobbie, Bobbie, but this is bad wark, bad wark," said Mattha, when seated in the wagon. "Hod thy tail in the watter, lad, and there's hope for thee yit." With this figurative expression Mattha settled himself for the drive. Rotha turned to Reuben Thwaite.
Jist try an' mak' her believe, when you speak, that she had gane awa' to the store a message, or to the well for watter, an' that she had bidden owre lang, as she an' ither weans used to do when they got started the play, an' forget to come hame. Jist speak to her that way, Matthew, an' the hame-comin', if ever it comes, will no' be sae hard for the puir bairn.
T' fishin' boats were out at sea, an' t' air were fair wick wi' kittiwakes an' herrin' gulls. So I just undressed misen, walked down to t' watter an' started swimmin'. Eh! but t' sea were bonny an' warm, an' for once I got all yon dowly thowts o' death clean out o' my head. So I just struck out for t' buoy that were anchored out at sea, happen hafe a mile frae t' shore.
Well, we can't goo liggering to-day, lad. It wouldn't be neighbourly." "No, I shouldn't care to go to-day, Dave, and without Tom. What are you going to do?" "Throost the punt along as far as I can, and when I've gotten to the end o' the watter tie her oop to the pole, and walk over to see the plaace." "I'll come with you, Dave." "Hey, do, lad, and you can tell me all about it as we go. Jump in."
"Ye'll be wantin' a drappy mair cauld watter, I'm thinkin'," said Janet. She stretched the chain to its length, and with a great stone drove the sharp iron stake at the other end of it, into the clay-floor.
"I'm thinking ye are right, Junkie. An' the creat thing to know iss where the ledges lie. He keeps well back from the watter also. There maun be somethin' in that, what-e-ver. Ye wull be tryin' it yoursel' the morn, maype." To this Junkie vouchsafed no reply, for the fisher, having secured his fish, was proceeding further up stream.
It 'll tak' some watter and grace to mak' him ought like, I reckon. But they tell me he's takken to gien his brass away. It 'll noan dry th' een o' th' poor fo'k he's made weep, tho' will it, Mr. Penrose? 'Perhaps not, Mrs. Halstead; but Moses is an altered man. 'And noan afore it wur time. But what's that noise in th' yard? It saands like th' colliers.
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