'Reckon 'tis all over a'ready.

I've a-heard afore now," he went on, turning his back to the wind the better to wink at the company, "that 'tis lucky for some folks Gauger Hocken hain't extra spry 'pon his pins.

But 'tis a gift that cuts both ways.

Be any gone round by Cove Head to look out ?" "Iss, a dozen or more.

I saw 'em 'pon the road, a minute back, like emmets runnin'." "'Twas very nice feelin', I must own--very nice indeed--of Gauger Hocken to warn the church-folk first; and him a man of no faith, as you may say.