She and I had just settled down comfortable after my old man went, and I didn't see no sense in it, an' I don't now.

She might ha' let the men alone.

She'd seen enough o' the worrit ov 'em." "Well, she did well for hersen," said Mrs.Brunt, with the same gentle melancholy.

"She married a stiddy man as 'ull keep her well all her time, and never let her want for nothink." "A sour, wooden-faced chap as iver I knew," said Mrs.Jellison, grudgingly.

"I don't have nothink to say to him, nor he to me.