'I know well enough what your Sunday evening lectures are good for--for wenches to meet their sweethearts, and brew mischief.

There's work enough with the servant-maids as it is--such as I never heard the like of in my mother's time, and it's all along o' your schooling and newfangled plans.

Give me a servant as can nayther read nor write, I say, and doesn't know the year o' the Lord as she was born in.

I should like to know what good those Sunday schools have done, now.

Why, the boys used to go a birds-nesting of a Sunday morning; and a capital thing too--ask any farmer; and very pretty it was to see the strings o' heggs hanging up in poor people's houses.