I'd 'How'st do' him indeed! If the sun only shines out a minute, there be you all streaming in the face--I never see!" "If I be hot week-days, I must be hot Sundays." "If any of the girls should turn after their father 'twill be a bad look- out for 'em, poor things! None of my family were sich vulgar sweaters, not one of 'em.

But, Lord-a-mercy, the Dewys! I don't know how ever I cam' into such a family!" "Your woman's weakness when I asked ye to jine us.

That's how it was I suppose." But the tranter appeared to have heard some such words from his wife before, and hence his answer had not the energy it might have shown if the inquiry had possessed the charm of novelty.
"You never did look so well in a pair o' trousers as in them," she continued in the same unimpassioned voice, so that the unfriendly criticism of the Dewy family seemed to have been more normal than spontaneous.

"Such a cheap pair as 'twas too.

As big as any man could wish to have, and lined inside, and double-lined in the lower parts, and an extra piece of stiffening at the bottom.