Dat dar water 'ud jis spile anything you biled in it.

I told yew yew'd spile it a-wearin' it tew bed.

When the active fermentation has ceased, the casks should be plugged upright, again filled, if necessary, the bungs be put in loosely, and, after a few days, when the fermentation is a little more languid (which may be known, by the hissing noise ceasing), the bungs should be driven in tight, and a spile-hole made, to give vent if necessary.

" "Dat spiles it all," said Dick ruefully.

I'd spile the looks o' the paper.

"It du spile the vine weather vor I," he would frequently grumble to his greatest crony, James Coachman, who, for his part, bitterly resented the abnormal length of the daily drives.

VII THE FANTASTICS Downstream from The Pool, a little way below Shadwell, an uncouth row of dilapidated dwellings in those days stoodor, better, squatted, like a mute company of draggletail cronesatop a river-wall whose ancient blocks, all ropy with the slime of centuries, peered dimly out through groups of crazy spiles at the restless pageant of Thames-life.

Below, by day, heavy wherries swung moored to the ooze-clad spiles or, when the tide was out, sprawled upon stinking mud-flats with a gesture of pathetic helplessness peculiar to stranded watercraft.

By night, however, a stir of furtive life was to be surmised from cryptic lights that flared and faded behind the crusted window-glass or fell through opened floor-traps to the thick black element that swirled about the spiles, and from guarded calls as well, inarticulate cries of hate and love and pain, rumours of close and crude carousal.

Through the square opening thus discovered Sofia saw a ladder of several slimy steps washed by black, oily waters that sucked and swirled sluggishly round spiles green with weed and ooze.

"I don't want to spile your evening," he says, very perlite.

Then they were to have ready their tapping gouges, their spiles and buckets.

" Sometimes he remarks, "Tis these dreadful frostis that spiles everything.

Sandy must 'a' clim' up on de tree en jump' off on a mule er sump'n, en rid fur ernuff fer ter spile de scent.

But dey ha' ter be monst'us keerful, er e'se somebody would 'a' seed 'em, en dat would 'a' spile' de whole thing; so Tenie alluz turnt Sandy back in de mawnin' early, befo' anybody wuz a-stirrin'.

I's feared you gwine spile my cunj'in'.

Elder spiles were stuck in the taps for the water to drop out in the wooden troughs, under the spiles.

Elder spiles were stuck in the taps for the water to drop out in the wooden troughs, under the spiles.

These trees had been tapped and elderwood spiles were placed in the taps where the water dripped to the wooden troughs below.

And these few pindling present-day district-schools scattered here and yan they only spiles the young uns for work, and hain't no improvement on nothing.

"If th' owd lad dees afore next year it 'ull spile everything'twouldn't be no satisfaction to walk oftener nor him if he were dead.

"That'll spile the looks of it anyhow," she remarked triumphantly.

It did seem to me that if I got through all right with Josiah, she wuz that soft and meller she would spile on my hands anyway.

And he sez, "We went in, Samantha, to look for a missin' man, and my corn ached like furiation jest as we wuz passin' the door, and I couldn't seem to walk another step, and it looked some like rain and I knew you wouldn't want me to spile my new coat"

Ain' nuthin' 'll spile a man quicker.