He's noane cut his wisdom-teeth yet.

But, for that matter, there's other folks as far fra' sense as he is.' 'Ay, and farther.

Coulson mayn't be so bright at all times as he might be, but he's a steady-goer, and I'd back him again' any chap o' his age i' Monkshaven.' 'I know who I'd sooner back in many a thing, Philip!' She said it with so much meaning that he could not fail to understand that he himself was meant, and he replied, ingenuously enough,-- 'If yo' mean me, mother, I'll noane deny that in a thing or two I may be more knowledgeable than Coulson.

I've had a deal o' time on my hands i' my youth, and I'd good schooling as long as father lived.' 'Lad! it's not schooling, nor knowledge, nor book-learning as carries a man through t' world.

It's mother-wit.