You've got to come." "Have I ?" grumbled Mike; "then I shan't." "'Day, young gen'lemen!" Mike leaped to his feet in horror, and Vince pulled himself up in a sitting position, to stare wonderingly at the old fellow, who had come silently up over the yielding turf.
"You ?" said Mike: "you've come ?" "Nay, I arn't, so don't you two get thinking anything o' the sort.

I won't let you have it to go out alone." "You--you won't let us have it to go out alone ?" faltered Vince.
"That's it, my lad," said the old man.
"Then he hasn't found out yet," thought Vince; and he exchanged glances with Mike, who looked ready to dash off.
"Why, yer jumped up as if yer thought I was going to pitch yer off the cliff, Master Ladelle.

Been asleep ?" "No, of course not," said Mike; and he looked at Vince, whose lips moved as if he were saying--"I'm going to tell him now." "Might just as well have said `yes' to you, though," grumbled Daygo.
"Just as well," assented Vince.
"Nice sort o' condition she's in now.

One streak o' board nearly out.
Cost me a good four or five shilling to get it mended, for I can't do it quite as I should like." Four or five shillings! Just the amount Vince had thought would be enough.
"If I'd let you have it," continued the old man, "that wouldn't ha' happened.

But I know: they can't cheat me.