My mother be married agen, you see, to the smith: her have got a cottage as belongs to her.

My brother have got a van and travels the country; and sometimes I and my wife goes with him.

I larned to set up a wire when I went to plough when I were a boy, but never took to it regular till I went a-navigating [navvying] and seed what a spree it were.
'There ain't no such chaps for poaching as they navigators in all England: I means where there be a railway a-making.

I've knowed forty of 'em go out together on a Sunday, and every man had a dog, and some two; and good dogs too--lots of 'em as you wouldn't buy for ten quid.

They used to spread out like, and sweep the fields as clean as the crownd of your hat.