Eh! my! we mun get him out here--we mun get him watchin' an' listenin' an' sniffin' up th' air an' get him just soaked through wi' sunshine.

An' we munnot lose no time about it." When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.

But she loved his broad Yorkshire and had in fact been trying to learn to speak it herself.

So she spoke a little now.
"Aye, that we mun," she said (which meant "Yes, indeed, we must").

"I'll tell thee what us'll do first," she proceeded, and Dickon grinned, because when the little wench tried to twist her tongue into speaking Yorkshire it amused him very much.