Yorkshire Tales. Third Series - Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
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using it, Hepsabah an her babbies have a drive throo th' park, Jerrymier
acting as th' cooachman. Th' galloway knows its getten a gooid hooam. It wants for nowt,--Mally taks gooid care o' that. It's one to be trusted an it knows its way abaat. Some day yo may see an old galloway, pullin a little carriage containin an old man an woman;--all three on em saand asleep, an yo can rest assured at that's Grime's an Mally an ther Galloway. True Blue; A Romance of Factory Life. Susy was only twenty-two, and she had been a widow for over twelve months. She had married when only nineteen, a honest hard working man who was more than twice her age. There had been no love in the match, so far as she was concerned;--she was an orphan,--poor,--lonely, and pretty. She was only a weaver, and not very expert, yet she managed to make sufficient to pay her board and to keep herself well dressed, for the position she occupied, and her beauty,--for she was very beautiful, and her natural taste enabled her to present an appearance so much superior to those with whom she was in daily contact, that many envied her, and some looked askance at her, and shook their heads, and predicted evil to come. Some one had dubbed her 'the Factory Belle,' but she never resented what |
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