I'm sure I wish the man were farred who plagues his brains wi' striking out new words.

Why can't folks just ha' a set on 'em for good and a' ?' 'Why! you'll be after using two or three hundred yoursel' every day as you live, Sylvie; and yet I must use a great many as you never think on about t' shop; and t' folks in t' fields want their set, let alone the high English that parsons and lawyers speak.' 'Well, it's weary work is reading and writing.

Cannot you learn me something else, if we mun do lessons ?' 'There's sums--and geography,' said Hepburn, slowly and gravely.
'Geography!' said Sylvia, brightening, and perhaps not pronouncing the word quite correctly, 'I'd like yo' to learn me geography.
There's a deal o' places I want to hear all about.' 'Well, I'll bring up a book and a map next time.

But I can tell you something now.

There's four quarters in the globe.' 'What's that ?' asked Sylvia.
'The globe is the earth; the place we live on.' 'Go on.