You have seed that row of oaks as grows in the hedge behind our house.

One of 'em leaned over the roof, and one of the limbs was like to fall; but they wouldn't cut him, just to spite us, and the rain dripping spoilt the thatch.

So I just had another chimney built at that end for an oven, and kept up the smoke till all the tree that side died.

I've had more than one pheasant through them oaks, as draws 'em: I had one in a gin as I put in the ditch by my garden.
'They started a tale as 'twas I as stole the lambs a year or two ago, and they had me up for it; but they couldn't prove nothing agen me.

Then they had me for unhinging the gates and drowning 'em in the water, but when they was going to try the case they two young farmers as you know of come and said as they did it when they was tight, and so I got off.
They said as 'twas I that put the poison for the hounds when three on 'em took it and died while the hunt was on.