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Stay here while I go and look. I wean't be long." He secured the boat to a stump of wood, and landed, leaving the lads seated in the punt, and gazing about them.
We're mates. I wean't laugh at you. You're a good un, that's what you are, and you'll grow into a man." The great fellow gave Dick's hand another shake that was very vigorous, but by no means pleasant; and then, after three roaring cheers, the whole party went off, striking up a chorus that went rolling over the fen and kept on dying out and rising again as the great sturdy fellows tramped away.
"Well, to me they seemed as if so many young eels had grown ashamed of being so long and thin, and they had been feeding themselves up and squeezing themselves short, so as to look as like tench as possible." "Oh, I know what you mean!" cried Tom. "Eel-pouts! they're just about half-way between eels and tench." "Nay, yow wean't catch them here," said Dave oracularly.
"Nay, lads, don't spyle a nice bit o' sport by quarrelling," said Dave, sending the boat rapidly homeward. "I wean't laugh at you no more, Mester Dick. I like you for it, lad. It do seem cruel; and sometimes when I weer younger, and a bud looked up at me with its pretty eyes, as much as to say, `don't kill me! I would let it go." "Ah!" ejaculated Dick with a sigh of relief.
"It weant bear thee, neighbour," said John Warren warningly. "Eh? wean't it? Well, I can but try, mun. Let's see." The good-natured wheelwright went cautiously towards where Dick was standing waiting for the rope; but at the third step he was up to his middle and had to scramble out and back as fast as he could. "I'm too heavy," he said; "but I'll try again.
'On wi' 'em, said John, forcing the wrong arm into the wrong sleeve, and winding the tails of the coat round the fugitive's neck. 'Noo, foller me, and when thee get'st ootside door, turn to the right, and they wean't see thee pass. 'But but he'll hear me shut the door, replied Smike, trembling from head to foot. 'Then dean't shut it at all, retorted John Browdie.
Shall I carry the birds down to the boat?" "Nay; we wean't take them to-day. I've sin more pie-wipes than ruffs, so let's try for them."
"But what did that bud do, lad? If it was a piewipe, go and kill hundreds o' worms, and snails, and young frogs; if it was a heron, spear fish and pick the wriggling young eels out of the mud. No, lad, it wean't do; buds is the cruellest things there is, pretty as they are all except them as only eats seeds.
Mr Browdie gave a grin of special width, as if he thought that really was something to laugh at, and went to work at the bread and butter with increased vigour. It was quite a sight to behold how he and Nicholas emptied the plate between them. 'Ye wean't get bread and butther ev'ry neight, I expect, mun, said Mr Browdie, after he had sat staring at Nicholas a long time over the empty plate.
'And that's a fine thing to do, and manly too, said Nicholas, 'though it's not exactly what we understand by "coming Yorkshire over us" in London. Miss Squeers is stopping with you, you said in your note. 'Yes, replied John, 'Tilly's bridesmaid; and a queer bridesmaid she be, too. She wean't be a bride in a hurry, I reckon.
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