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Yorkshire Tales. Third Series - Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley
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Aw'd be shamed o' misen to start grumblin abaat a bit ov a tupny-hawpny
winder!"

"Tupny-hawpny winder! Why, it'll cost a shillin to get that winder put
in! An what abaat th' teahcup?"

"Oh, that's nowt. It wor nobbut an owd crackt en. Awd meant throwin it
away monny a wick sin. Th' child wor sadly trubbled when he saw what
he'd done, for he wor feeard tha'd be cross wi him, but aw tell'd him to
whisht, for tha wornt to a winder or two, soa tha can give him a hawpny
for spice, (tha knows he thinks a deeal moor on it when it comes throo
thee,) an tha can call at glazers shop an tell em to send a chap up to
put another pane in, an here's sixpence for thisen, sithee, for aw know
thi bacca's ommost done."

"That's all reight. Ov cooarse th' child didn't meean to braik th'
winder, nor the teacup nawther,--but he owt to be towt different; an aw
dooant believe awr Hepsabah knows owt abaat trainin childer as they owt
to be trained. But aw'st send noa chap up here to put that winder in.
Aw've getten nowt else to do an aw meean to put that in misen. Aw can
buy a square o' glass that size, for abaat thrippence, an better glass
nor that wor too. But, Mally, nah this is a bargain;--If aw get th'
glass an th' putty, and put it in, tha gies me th' shillin th' same as
tha'd gie it onnybody else."

"Tha can have th' shillin! Aw'm nooan grumblin abaat th' shillin,--but
aw connot see wot tha wants wi soa mich brass day after day. Ther's
hardly ivver a day passes ovver thi heead 'at tha dosen't ax me for
awther sixpince or a shillin, an awm sewer ther's all tha needs to ait
an drink at hooam, an tha's as gooid clooas to don as onny man need
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