"You should ha' bin here last Saturday," said he; "we'd rather a curious scene.

One o' the men coom to me an' axed if I'd allow 'em hauve-an-hour to howd a meetin' about havin' a procession i' th' guild week.

I gav' 'em consent, on condition that they'd conduct their meetin' in an orderly way.

Well, they gethered together upo' that level theer; an' th' speakers stood upo' th' edge o' that cuttin', close to Charnock Fowd.

Th' meetin' lasted abeawt a quarter ov an hour longer than I bargained for; but they lost no time wi' what they had to do.