They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em.

I was brought hup among the gentry, sir, an' got the turn o' their tongue when I was a bye.

Why, what do you think the folks here says for 'hevn't you ?'--the gentry, you know, says, 'hevn't you'-- well, the people about here says 'hanna yey.' It's what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout, sir.

That's what I've heared Squire Donnithorne say many a time; it's the dileck, says he." "Aye, aye," said the stranger, smiling.

"I know it very well.