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like you"

"I aift o' the gab, and a

gabbing ab your share, if it comes to that," said I

"Can I?"

"You can"

"My chap," he growled, holding up a warning hand, "go easy now,

go easy; don't get ain"

"Not if I can help it," I returned

"I be a quiet soul till I gets took--a very quiet soul--lambs

bean't quieter, but I won't answer for that neck o' yourn if I do

get took--so look out!"

"I understand you have an i the subject

"Th' owd church screen, yes"

"And are in need of a helper?"

"Ah! to be sure--but you aren't got the look o' a workin' cove

I never see a workin' cove wi' 'ands the like o' yourn, so white

as a woh in ht you 'ave done, now?"

"I have translated Petronius Arbiter, also Quintilian, with a

literal rendering into the English of the Memoires of the Sieur

de Brantothe

Hammer"