I'd as soon be under 'em as under one here and there.

Her uncle was a very fair sort of man.

Did ye know en, shepherd--a bachelor-man ?" "Not at all." "I used to go to his house a-courting my first wife, Charlotte, who was his dairymaid.

Well, a very good-hearted man were Farmer Everdene, and I being a respectable young fellow was allowed to call and see her and drink as much ale as I liked, but not to carry away any--outside my skin I mane of course." "Ay, ay, Jan Coggan; we know yer maning." "And so you see 'twas beautiful ale, and I wished to value his kindness as much as I could, and not to be so ill-mannered as to drink only a thimbleful, which would have been insulting the man's generosity--" "True, Master Coggan, 'twould so," corroborated Mark Clark.
"-- And so I used to eat a lot of salt fish afore going, and then by the time I got there I were as dry as a lime-basket--so thorough dry that that ale would slip down--ah, 'twould slip down sweet! Happy times! Heavenly times! Such lovely drunks as I used to have at that house! You can mind, Jacob?
You used to go wi' me sometimes." "I can--I can," said Jacob.

"That one, too, that we had at Buck's Head on a White Monday was a pretty tipple." "'Twas.