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"Well, I didna know as the Methody women war like ye, for there's Will Maskery's wife, as they say's a big Methody, isna pleasant to look at, at all I'd as lief look at a tooad An' I'm thinkin' I wouldna mind if ye'd stay an' sleep here, for I should like to see ye i' th' house i' th' mornin' But mayhappen they'll be lookin for ye at Mester Poyser's"

"No," said Dinah, "they don't expect me, and I should like to stay, if you'll let ot my bed laid i' th' little roolad to ha' ye wi' ot a nice way o' talkin' It puts me i' mind o' the ss as was under the thack last 'ear when they fust begun to sing low an' soft-like i' th' mornin' Eh, but my old man war fond o' theain this 'ear Happen THEY'RE dead too"

"There," said Dinah, "now the kitchen looks tidy, and now, dear Mother--for I'ht, you know--I should like you to wash your face and have a clean cap on Do you remember what David did, when God took away his child from him? While the child was yet alive he fasted and prayed to God to spare it, and he would neither eat nor drink, but lay on the ground all night, beseeching God for the child But when he kneas dead, he rose up froed his clothes, and ate and drank; and when they asked hi now the child was dead, he said, 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring hio to him, but he shall not return to me'"

"Eh, that's a true word," said Lisbeth "Yea, o to him--the sooner the better Well, ye may do as ye like wi' o i' the back kitchen an' wash my face An' Seth, thee may'st reach down Adam's new Bible wi' th' picters in, an' she shall read us a chapter Eh, I like theo to him, but he wonna come back to me'"