It were the dalledest lie! I wouldn't hurt a dog not for nothing.

The keeper hisself put that poison, I knows, 'cause he couldn't bear the pack coming to upset the pheasants.
Yes, they been down upon I a main bit, but I means to bide.

All the farmers knows as I never touched no lamb, nor even pulled a turmot, and they never couldn't get no witnesses.
'After a bit I catched the keeper hisself and the policeman at it; and there be another as knows it, and who do you think that be?
It be the man in town as got the licence to sell game as haves most of my hares; the keeper selled he a lot as the money never got to my lard's pocket and the steward never knowed of.

Look at that now! So now he shuts his eye and axes me to drink, and give me the ferreting job in Longlands Mound; but, Lord bless 'ee, I bean't so soft as he thinks for.
'They used to try and get me to fight the keeper when they did catch me with a wire, but I knowed as hitting is transporting, and just put my hands in my pockets and let 'em do as they liked.

_They_ knows I bean't afraid of 'em in the road; I've threshed more than one of 'em, but I ain't going to jump into _that_ trap.