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"Dagley,

to be very friendly about the boy

"Oh, ay, I'ley, with a loud snarling irony whichstir

fro Monk enter the yard after

soain in an attitude of

observation "I'ood feller"

Mr Brooke reflected that it was market-day, and that his worthy tenant

had probably been dining, but saw no reason why he should not go on,

since he could take the precaution of repeating what he had to say to

Mrs Dagley

"Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I

have told Johnson to lock hihten hiht hoht: and you'll just look after hiive him a

reprimand, you know?"

"No, I woon't: I'll be dee'd if I'll leather my boy to please you or

anybody else, not if you enty landlords istid o' one, and that a

bad un"

Dagley's words were loud enough to summon his wife to the back-kitchen