And if yer breaks em--" "What would happen ?" asked Paul, who was always very much impressed by Barney Bill's detailed knowledge of the roads and the inns of England.
Barney Bill shook his head.

"It would break 'is 'eart.

Them pots was being used when William the Conqueror was a boy." "Ten-sixty-six to ten-eighty-seven," said Paul the scholar.

"They mun be nine hundred years old." "Not quite," said Barney Bill, with an air of scrupulous desire for veracity.

"But nearly.