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Updated: May 16, 2025


"That's what's caused ye to be so long, Mas' Gammon?" The veteran of the fields responded with a grin, designed to show a lively cunning. "Deary me, Mas' Gammon, I'd give a fortnight's work to know how much you'm saved, now, I would. And, there! Your comfort's in your heart. And it shall be paid to you.

Every one in the Joll household gave him a small present on his leaving. Lizzie's was a New Testament, with her name on the flyleaf, and under it, "Converted April 19, 187-." Taffy did not want the gift, but took it rather than hurt her feelings. Farmer Joll said, "Well, wish 'ee well! Been pretty comfiable, I hope. Now you'm goin', I don't mind telling 'ee I didn't like your coming a bit.

Edward could find no reply to this. 'Are you happy here, Hazel? he asked. 'Ah! I be. 'You don't miss 'Father? Not likely! She looked up with her clear golden eyes. 'You'm mother and father both! 'Only that, dear? 'Brother. 'You've forgotten one, Hazel husband. His eyes were wistful. 'And lover, perhaps, some day, he added. 'Good night, dear.

She wanted no one but Huldah now, and she wanted her always. She loved her brightness and cheerfulness. When Huldah laughed and sang she was quite content, but the moment she was sad or quiet, Aunt Emma would grow peevish and uneasy. "You'm fretting because you've got to stay here with me, I know. You'm longing to be back with that Mrs. Perry.

Joe Roscorla was Uncle Loveday's "man," a word in our parts connoting ability to look after a horse, a garden, a pig or two, or, indeed, anything that came in the way of being looked after. At the present moment I came in that way; consequently, after some time spent in reflective silence, Joe began to speak. "You'm looking wisht." "Am I, Joe?" "Mortal." There was a pause: then Joe continued

And if it haven't reached 'ee, why the postmaster-general ought to be written to 'bout it. But," breaking off with sudden recollection, "you'm come; and if you didn't get that tellygram, whatever made 'ee to? You didn't have no token, did 'ee?" "I had Betty's letter," said Kitty, trying to sort things out in her mind. "That was all I had, and that brought me.

The auld bird's hoppin' all awver the village so proud as a jackdaw as have stole a shiny button. He'm bustin' wi' it in fact." "I'll bust un! An' his news, tu. An' you can say, when you'm axed, 't is the foulest lie ever falled out of wicked lips." Billy now took his hat and stick from their corner and marched to the door without more words. "No violence, mind now, no violence," begged Mr.

She wore no shoes inside her cottage, but went about in a pair of coarse worsted stockings on all days except the very rawest, when the chill of the lime-ash floor struck into her bones. "May I wait a few minutes till the weather lifts?" I asked. She smiled and seemed almost grateful. "You'm kindly welcome, be sure: that's if you don't mind the Vaccination."

Dick turned himself round and strutted with delight in a way that set Elsie laughing in spite of her weariness; but the old woman smiled rather sadly, turned back the red cuffs, as the sleeves were rather too long for Dick, and pinned a shawl over the coat so that it could not be seen. She became cheerful again, however, and said: "But you'm hungry, my little lady.

Sarved in the Queen's Navy, I have, where yeou'm taught to use your eyes. Yeou go 'tend your own business, Lena." "Do 'ee mean what you'm been tellin' us?" said Oke. "Ask me no questions, I'll give 'ee no lies. Bullet-hole clane thru from side to side, an' tu heart-ribs broke like withies. I seed un when I turned un ovver.

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