Two mornings later George, walking on the dyke with his mother, saw by the aid of his telescope an English steamer near the pier.

I haven't got any use for the infernal, purposeless chattering I hear all around me every time I go out on the dyke.

Besides, I see the panjandrum who brings the mail coming up the dyke down yonder.

Stretching along the landward side of the dyke stood a row of little houses, green and pink and white, with tile roofs mounting steeply upward, their red surfaces broken by innumerable dormers.

His father had made the dyke at a heavy cost but in places the stones and soil had gradually washed away.

If the dyke broke at one spot, the beck would return to its old channel and much damage might be done, particularly if the floods rolled across the turnip fields.

He came back along the meadow dyke and stopped for a few minutes when he reached its weakest place.

"Are you going to mend the dyke?" he asked.

To repair the dyke properly would be a long and expensive business, since there were a number of weak spots, but a dozen men, working hard, might perhaps strengthen the threatened part sufficiently to bear the strain.

For aw that, mending dyke is landlord's business.

I don't ask you to mend the dyke for Osborn's sake but yours.

Landlord's bound to keep dyke in order.

You'll certainly find it cheaper to mend the dyke.

"Has anybody given you leave to meddle with the dyke?" he asked.

Despite this, he held out until, in the evening, the strengthened dyke stood high above the stream.

"Next time beck's in flood Osborn can mend his dyke himsel'," said one.

The rain stopped at night, the next day was fine, and in the afternoon Kit went up the dale to look at the mended dyke.

Following the dyke until he came to the road, he sat down on the bridge and lighted his pipe.

"I have been to see the mended dyke," she said, and he knew that she had pluck.

I'm not; I have never tried to injure him, and if the dyke was threatened by another flood, I believe I'd mend it.

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