For the seven years since she left her father, Louie had quite unlearnt kissing.
Reuben proceeded up the lane to the gate leading to the moor.

He was in the highest spirits.

What a mercy he had not bothered Hannah with Mr.Ancrum's remarks! Why, the boy wouldn't go to a trade, not if he were sent! At the gate he ran against David, who came hastily out of the farmyard to intercept him.
'Uncle Reuben, what do they coe that bit watter up theer ?' and he pointed up the lane towards the main ridge of the Peak.

'Yo know--that bit pool on t' way to th' Downfall ?' The farmer stopped bewildered.
'That bit watter?
What they coe that bit watter?
Why, they coe it t' Witch's Pool, or used to i' my yoong days.

An for varra good reason too.