"I am sorry to be here on an unpleasant business; but I have got to say as the squire wishes to see Master Walsham in the justice room at ten o'clock, on a charge of 'salt and battery.
"Don't you be afeard ma'am," he went on confidentially.

"I don't think as anything is going to be done to him.

I ain't got no warrant, and so I don't look upon it as regular business.

I expects it will be just a blowing up.

It will be just the squire, and not the magistrate, I takes it.