"There won't be no peace in life no more," he said, "and I shan't be allowed to show my nose in the kitchen.

I'd have had my old 'ead scat abroad every day of my life and never have told rather than I'd have helped to do this.

Was it really me telling on 'ee, sur, that made the master settle it so ?" "Yes," nodded Dan, "that finished it." Jabez groaned again in sheer misery.

"I dunno, I'm sure, whatever made me take and do it.

I've stood so much more from all of 'ee and never so much as opened my lips.