'It's got th' cowd in't, that's what it is; it's th' rheumatics, I speck.

Yak howd on me, I'll help yo down.' And with much coaxing on his part and many cries and outbursts on hers he got her up at last, and out of the den.

He had tied his tin box across his back, and Louie, with the rugs wrapped about her, clung, limping, and with teeth chattering, on to his arm.

The child was in the first throes of a sharp attack of rheumatism, and half her joints were painful.
That was a humiliating descent! A cold grey morning was breaking over the moor; the chimneys of the distant cotton-towns rose out of mists, under a sky streaked with windy cloud.

The Mermaid's Pool, as they passed it, looked chill and mocking; and the world altogether felt so raw and lonely that David welcomed the first sheep they came across with a leap of the heart, and positively hungered for a first sight of the farm.