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"Take off the bridle and give him a drink, ostler," said the traveller to the lad in a smock-frock, who had come out of the yard at the sound of the horse's hoofs

"Why, what's up in your pretty village, landlord?" he continued, getting down "There see, sir; it's been gev hout as a young wo to preach on the Green," answered Mr Casson, in a treble and wheezy voice, with a slightlyaccent "Will you please to step in, sir, an' tek so on to Rosseter I only want a drink forwo just under his nose?"

"Parson Irwine, sir, doesn't live here; he lives at Brox'on, over the hill there The parsonage here's a tuentry to live in He comes here to preach of a Sunday afternoon, sir, an' puts up his hoss here It's a grey cob, sir, an' he sets great store by't He's allays put up his hoss here, sir, iver since before I hed the Donnithorne Arue, sir They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'eot the turn o' their tongue when I was a bye Why, what do you think the folks here says for 'hevn't you?'--the gentry, you know, says, 'hevn't you'--well, the people about here says 'hanna yey' It's what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout, sir That's what I've heared Squire Donnithorne say many a tier, sot ricultural spot? I should have thought there would hardly be such a thing as a Methodist to be found about here You're all farmers, aren't you? The Methodists can seldom lay much hold on THEM"

"Why, sir, there's a pretty lot o' worke as owns the ti an' repairs An' there's the stone-pits not far off There's plenty of emply i' this countryside, sir An' there's a fine batch o' Methodisses at Treddles'on--that's the h it, sir There's pretty nigh a score of 'em on the Green now, as coh there's only two ht, and Seth Bede, a young man as works at the carpenterin'"