"Cliff's Holiday" has been the name of it ever sin' I were a boy; that's to say, some said as it was the holiday Old Harry gev him from roasting, like.

That's what my father told me, and he was a reasonable man, though there's folks nowadays know what happened afore they were born better nor they know their own business." "What do you say to that, eh, Dowlas ?" said the landlord, turning to the farrier, who was swelling with impatience for his cue.

"There's a nut for _you_ to crack." Mr.Dowlas was the negative spirit in the company, and was proud of his position.
"Say?
I say what a man _should_ say as doesn't shut his eyes to look at a finger-post.

I say, as I'm ready to wager any man ten pound, if he'll stand out wi' me any dry night in the pasture before the Warren stables, as we shall neither see lights nor hear noises, if it isn't the blowing of our own noses.

That's what I say, and I've said it many a time; but there's nobody 'ull ventur a ten-pun' note on their ghos'es as they make so sure of." "Why, Dowlas, that's easy betting, that is," said Ben Winthrop.