The upper millstone is now sometimes balanced with lead, which Tibbald said was not the case of old.
'We used to have a good trade at this mill,' he continued, as he resumed his pecking; 'but our time be a-most gone by.

We be too fur away up in these here Downs.

There! Listen to he!' A faint hollow whistle came up over the plain, and I saw a long white cloud of steam miles away, swiftly gliding above the trees beneath which in the cutting the train was running.
'That be th' express.

It be that there steam as have done for us.
Everything got to go according to that there whistle: they sets the church clock by he.

The big London mills as be driven by steam does the most of the work; and this here foreign wheat, as comes over in the steamers, puts the market down, so as we yent got a chance to buy up a lot and keep it till the price gets better.