Here are the quotations for this week (March 2nd to 8th):
1. 'Have it as you've a mind to,' he was saying, 'but the vivers of her
roots they hold the bank together. If you grub her out, the bank she'll all
come tearing down, an' next floods the brook'll all swarve up. But have it
as you've a mind...'
2. '...The brook she'd crep' up on us, an' she kep' creepin' upon us till we
was workin' knee deep in the shallers, cuttin' an' pookin' an pullin' what
we could get to o' the rubbbish. There was a middlin' lot comin'
down-stream, too - cattle-bars an' hop-poles and odds-end bats, all poltin'
down together...'
3. ...'Twas hot an' windy for weeks, an' the streets stinkin' o' dried
'orse-dung blowin' from side to side an' lyin' level with the kerb. We don't
get that nowadays. I 'ad my 'ol'day just before hoppin', an' come down 'ere
to stay with Bessie again. She noticed I'd lost flesh, an' was all poochy
under the eyes.'...
The sources of last week's extracts (Feb 23rd to March 1st) are as follows:
1. (...Then came the cholera from all four quarters of the compass...) This
is from 'Without Benefit of Clergy' in 'Life's Handicap'.
2. (...'That summer the Ould Rig’ment did not use their own Clink, bekase
the cholera was hangin’ about there like Mildew on wet boots,...') This is
from 'My Lord the Elephant' in 'Many Inventions'.
3. (...I said, knowing what the Major had brought me out for, - ”The Boy
died of cholera. We were with him at the time....") This is from 'Thrown
Away' in 'Plain Tales from the Hills'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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