So I said-- 'We may as well give you a hand with this lot; but we'll go home then, and drop all this duffing work.

It don't pay.

I'm old enough to know that, and you'll find it out yet, I expect, father, yourself.' 'The fox lives long, and gives the hounds many a long chase before he's run into,' he said, with a grim chuckle.

'I swore I'd be revenged on 'em all when they locked me up and sent me out here for a paltry hare; broke my old mother's heart, so it did.

I've had a pound for every hair in her skin, and I shall go on till I die.