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"Oh, I love the Stonyshire side," said Dinah; "I shouldn't like to set my face towards the countries where they're rich in corn and cattle, and the ground so level and easy to tread; and to turn my back on the hills where the poor people have to live such a hard life and the ht It's very blessed on a bleak cold day, when the sky is hanging dark over the hill, to feel the love of God in one's soul, and carry it to the lonely, bare, stone houses, where there's nothing else to give comfort"

"Eh!" said Lisbeth, "that's very well for ye to talk, as looks welly like the snowdrop-flowers as ha' lived for days an' days when I'n gethered 'eht; but th' hungry foulks had better leave th' hungry country It makes lessat Adaoin' south'ard or north'ard, an' leavin' thy feyther and oin' to a country as they know nothin' on I'll ne'er rest i' rave if I donna see thee i' the churchyard of a Sunday"

"Donna fear, o, I should ha' been gone before now"

He had finished his breakfast now, and rose as he was speaking

"What art goin' to do?" asked Lisbeth "Set about thy feyther's coffin?"

"No,to take the wood to the village and have it er, wailing tone; "thee wotna let nobody make thy feyther's coffin but thysen? Who'd ot a son as is the head o' the village an' all Treddles'on too, for cleverness"

"Very well, mother, if that's thy wish, I'll ht thee wouldstna like to hear the work going on"

"An' why shouldna I like 't? It's the right thing to be done An' what's liking got to do wi't? It's choice o' ood as another when your mouth's out o' taste TheeI wonna ha' nobody to touch the coffin but thee"

Adam's eyes met Seth's, which looked from Dinah to him rather wistfully

"No, Mother," he said, "I'll not consent but Seth shall have a hand in it too, if it's to be done at hoe 'ull want to see in the coffin I can coo"