Oi likes to ha' her wi' me on the roade--it makes it shorter like.

As thou knowest thyself, oi ha' bin a chaanged man sin she coom.

There warn't a cropper in the village drank harder nor oi, but oi maad oop moi moind when she came to gi' it up, and oi have gi'd it up." "I know, Luke," the girl said, "I wouldna have had ye, hadn't ye doon so, as I told ye two years agone.

I know the child ha' done it, and I loves her for it, and will be a good mother to her." "Oi knows you will, Loiza, and oi bain't feared as ye'll be jealous if so be as ye've children o' your own.

Oi shan't love 'em a bit the less coss oi loves little Polly.