There was a deal of talk about him at market last Wednesday, and Jones and Peg is just silly to go back to Australy with 'im.

I ain't sure," continued Abel, closing the conversation by a vigorous thrust of his spade into the earth, "as one of the things that fetched 'em all most wasn't his saying that since he's been in a hot climate he knowed what it was to be tempted himself when he was a bit down on his luck or a bit up.

Pratts would never have owned to that." The village always spoke of Mr.Pratt in the plural without a prefix.

"I've been to a sight of temperance meetings, because," with indulgence, "master likes it, tho' I always has my glass, as is natural.

But I never heard one of the speakers kind of settle to it like that.