He made the rabbits' ears to lie back, an' it's nothin' but contrairiness to make 'em hing down like a mastiff dog's.

Master Tom 'ull know better nor buy such things another time.

Don't you fret, Miss.

Will you come along home wi' me, and see my wife?
I'm a-goin' this minute." The invitation offered an agreeable distraction to Maggie's grief, and her tears gradually subsided as she trotted along by Luke's side to his pleasant cottage, which stood with its apple and pear trees, and with the added dignity of a lean-to pigsty, at the other end of the Mill fields.

Mrs.Moggs, Luke's wife, was a decidedly agreeable acquaintance.