If it hadn't been for her oi would ha' cut it long ago.

Oi wouldn't go agin what ye said, Maister Ned; but oi am danged if oi could ha' stood it ef it hadn't been for Polly." "I suppose," Ned said, "that now they have got the soldiers down in Marsden it will be all right about the mill." "Oi caan't say," Bill replied; "nateral they doan't say nowt to me; but oi be sure that some'ats oop.

They be a-drilling every night, and there will be trouble avore long.

Oi doan't believe as they will venture to attack the mill as long as the sojers be in Marsden; but oi wouldn't give the price of a pint of ale for Foxey's loife ef they could lay their hands on him.

He'd best not come up this way arter dark." "He's not likely to do that," Ned said.