Band played six-eight time; six-eight chaws I, willynilly.

Band plays common; common time went my teeth among the liver and lights as true as a hair.

Beautiful 'twere! Ah, I shall never forget that there band!" "That's as tuneful a thing as ever I heard of," said grandfather James, with the absent gaze which accompanies profound criticism.
"I don't like Michael's tuneful stories then," said Mrs.Dewy.

"They are quite coarse to a person o' decent taste." Old Michael's mouth twitched here and there, as if he wanted to smile but didn't know where to begin, which gradually settled to an expression that it was not displeasing for a nice woman like the tranter's wife to correct him.
"Well, now," said Reuben, with decisive earnestness, "that sort o' coarse touch that's so upsetting to Ann's feelings is to my mind a recommendation; for it do always prove a story to be true.

And for the same reason, I like a story with a bad moral.