At six in the mornin' I heard the gravel crunch, and I wint to the door.

Well, that's where they wint in.

'Twas four miles to the village, an' I wint on my blessed feet, an' by the time I got to the place I was as nervous as a mouse in a thrap.

After that I did sell the big pan, an' then the new rockin' chair, an' so on, one thing after another, till all wint entirely, barrin' this I am sittin' on, an' they wint for next to nothin' too.

She never heard top nor tail of him since he wint from her; an' the girl is just pinin' away.

But then me mother was lame o' the right leg intirely, and wint about wid a crutch, so I can't make out how it was, d'ye see?" "Look out, Pat," exclaimed Summers, starting up, "here comes the ball.

Hewitt ut is,' sez he, 'that attinds to the onaccountable departmint, him as wint by a minut ago.

"Well, sor, I tuk the bag and wint out of the station, tuk the cab, an' did all as he towld me.

" "What did they do to you on Saturday?" "Saturday, sor, they gave me a whole holiday, and I began to think less of things; but on Saturday night, in a dark place, two blayguards tuk me throat from behind, nigh choked me, flung me down, an' wint through all me pockuts in about a quarter av a minut.