You young folk, go and chirp under the tree.

What I want is a little rum and water." With these words the tanner went into his bower, where he kept a good store of materials in moss; and the plaited ivy of the narrow entrance shook with his voice, and steps, and the decision of his thoughts.

For he wanted to see things come to a point, and his only way to do it was to get quite out of sight.

Such fools the young people of the age were now! While his thoughts were such, or scarcely any better, his partner in life came down the walk, with a heap of little things which she thought needful for the preservation of the tanner, and she waddled a little and turned her toes out, for she as well was roundish.
"Ah, you ought to have Sue.

Where is Sue ?" said Master Popplewell.
"Now come you in out of the way of the wind, Debby; you know how your back-sinew ached with the darning before last wash." Mrs.Popplewell grumbled, but obeyed; for she saw that her lord had his reasons.