"If she was in difficulties we" "Naw, Florette wasn' that kind; nev' put up any hard-luck story y' un'erstan'.

Twasn' Moother?" "Naw. It wasn' yore moother.

" "'T wasn' mae, Mr. Greatorex, an' 't was n' Assy.

Law, I heerd many as three fiddles goin' in dat house many a time, an' I kin jes see her li'l old fair han's now, playin' jes as fast as lightnin' a chune[FN: tune] 'bout [HW: Song] 'My father he cried, my mother she cried, I wasn' cut out fer de army.

" "I wasn' complaining," said the woman; "I was just remarking.

" "That wasn' the man.

He'd a bold masterful way, bein' proud as ever his mother was, an' well knowin' there wasn' his match in Tregarrick for head-work.

The evenin' was hot an' the window open; an' now all the town that wasn' listenin' to the trial was gathered in front, gazin' cur'ously at the woman inside.

You see, there wasn' enough for both, livin' apart.

now I come to mind, if you wasn' the first to wake the house an' say you heard a man hollerin' out down 'pon the mud.

I wasn' bad all the time, I must tell you, sir; but 'tis only lately my mem'ry would work any further back 'n the wreck o' the barque.

If I wasn' a h-artiz I wouldn' git married; I gie you my word!"

IIII di'n' 'ten' no hawm to Mawse-Agricole; I wa'n't gwan to hu't nobody in God's worl'; 'ndeed I wasn'.

"It's easy seen you wasn' brought up along with animals.

"Well, they used to come on next turn to mine, which was the Zambra Fambly, as before the Crowned 'eadsonly there wasn' no fambly about it, nor yet no 'eads.

He wasn' your sort at all; and besides, he's dead.

"Eh? I wasn' talkin of the dorg," he explained.

"I was kiddin' of 'ertellin' what wasn' true," she explained.

"You wasn' wanted up there, after all.

'I'm a narch little gipsy,' she said, 'an' I never gets tipsy'" "Why should she?" "'But I laugh an' play,' she said, 'the whole o' the day, such a nartless life is mine, ha, ha!' which wasn' none of it true, except about the drink, but you could see she only done it to make 'erself pleasant.

Bless the man, I wasn' thinkin' of yer verses.

There wasn' no time to go back for it.

"A stranger might say as you wasn' the best o' friends.