I bode seven at Kingsbere" (nodding to the east) "where I took to malting.

I went therefrom to Norcombe, and malted there two-and-twenty years, and-two-and-twenty years I was there turnip-hoeing and harvesting.

Ah, I knowed that old place, Norcombe, years afore you were thought of, Master Oak" (Oak smiled sincere belief in the fact).

"Then I malted at Durnover four year, and four year turnip-hoeing; and I was fourteen times eleven months at Millpond St.Jude's" (nodding north-west-by-north).

"Old Twills wouldn't hire me for more than eleven months at a time, to keep me from being chargeable to the parish if so be I was disabled.