How is your head now ?" "Oh, it's all right agen now, miss.

On'y a bit sore." "You tumbled off the cliff, didn't you ?" "Off a bit of it," said Ram, grinning.

"Not far." "But how foolish of you! Mrs Shackle said you might have been killed." "Yes, miss, but I wasn't." "What were you doing in such a dangerous place ?" "Eh ?" said Ram, changing colour; "what was I doing ?" "Yes, to run such a risk." "I was--I was--" Ram was completely taken aback, and sat staring, with his mouth open.
"Lookin' after a lost sheep," came in a deep growl from under Jemmy Dadd's hat.
"Oh! And did you find it ?" "Yes; he fun' it," said the man, "but it were in a very dangerous place.
It's all dangerous 'long here; and Master Shackle wouldn't let young Ram here go along these here clift slopes without me to take care on him." Ram grinned.
"And you take my advice, miss, don't you come 'bout here.

We lost four sheep last year, and come nigh losing the missuses best cow not long ago.

Didn't you hear ?" "Yes; old Mary told me, and Mrs Shackle mentioned it too." "Ay," continued Jemmy, without removing his hat, "she fell slip-slap into the sea." "Poor thing." "Ay, little missus; and, if I were you, I wouldn't come along top o' they clifts at all.