There's a brother o' mine lives with us,--he'd a been clemmed into th' grave but for th' relief; an' aw've been many a time an' hesn't put a bit i' my meawth fro mornin' to mornin' again.

We've bin married twenty-four year; an' aw don't think at him an' me together has spent a shillin' i' drink all that time.

Why, to tell yo truth, we never had nought to stir on.

My husband does bod get varra little upo th' hand-loom i' th' best o' times--5s.

a week or so.