"'Is she deaf, ma'am?' "'No, nor blind,' says she; 'as sharp as a needle, but she's gone quite aupy, and can't remember nout rightly; and Jack the Giant Killer, or Goody Twoshoes will please her as well as the king's court, or the affairs of the nation.' "'And what did the little girl go away for, ma'am, that went on Friday last?

They said nout for a while, but he turns round the skull, as it lay on the floor.

So 'tis nout to me, except in the way o' friendliness, what the family may think o' me; only the George and they has always been kind and friendly, and I don't want to break the old custom.