"Bless mi life! That's easy to set straight! Connot ta lend her one o'
thy bonnets?"

"Tha artn't worth tawkin to! Does ta think a young lass, (for shoo's
little moor,) wod goa to th' chapel in an old woman's bonnet? If shoo'd
had lot's o' father's they'd ha bowt her one."

"Happen soa;--but tha sees shoo hasn't a lot o' father's,--shoo's nobbut
getten me,--but if buyin her a bit ov a bonnet will set matters straight
aw could sewerly manage that."

"Nah tha'rt tawkin sense. Aw tell'd her if shoo'd nobbut ax thi tha'd
nooan see her kept i'th haase for th' want ov a hat. But shoo sed tha'd
allus been soa gooid to her at shoo couldn't for shame to mention it.
But, tha knows, tha cannot buy her a hat unless shoo gooas wi thi."

"W ell,--tell her to put her things on an we'll goa an get her messured
for one at once."

"Tha tawks as if tha wor gooin to get her a coffin asteead ov a hat.
Wimmen dooant get messured for hats."

"Oh, dooant they. Well, tell her to get ready an luk sharp."

Mally left Sammywell smookin his pipe an went to carry gooid news to
Hepsabah.

"Nah, Hepsabah lass,--aw've managed to tawk thi father into th' humour
to buy thi a hat. A'a! but aw've had a job! Come this minnit for fear he
changes his mind; an see tha gets a gooid en wol tha's th' chonce."