For up in the north there is an idea that the ice stored in the first frost will melt, and the meat cured then taint; the first frost is good for nothing but to be thrown away, as they express it.
There came a breathing-time after this last event.

The house had had its last autumn cleaning, and was neat and bright from top to bottom, from one end to another.

The turf was led; the coal carted up from Monkshaven; the wood stored; the corn ground; the pig killed, and the hams and head and hands lying in salt.

The butcher had been glad to take the best parts of a pig of Dame Robson's careful feeding; but there was unusual plenty in the Haytersbank pantry; and as Bell surveyed it one morning, she said to her husband-- 'I wonder if yon poor sick chap at Moss Brow would fancy some o' my sausages.

They're something to crack on, for they are made fra' an old Cumberland receipt, as is not known i' Yorkshire yet.' 'Thou's allays so set upo' Cumberland ways!' said her husband, not displeased with the suggestion, however.