The men ha been drilling four or five years now, and oi know as they ha' been saying, What be the good of it when nowt is done and the wages gets lower and lower?
They have preachments now out on t' moor on Sunday, and the men comes from miles round, and they tells me as Stukeley and others, but him chiefly, goes on awful agin t' maisters, and says, There's Scripture vor it as they owt to smite 'em, and as how tyrants owt vor to be hewed in pieces." "The hewing would not be all on one side, Bill, you will see, if they begin it.

You know how easily the soldiers have put down riots in other places." "That be true," Bill said; "but they doan't seem vor to see it.

Oi don't say nowt one way or t' other, and oi have had more nor half a mind to quit and go away till it's over.

What wi' my brothers and all t' other young chaps here being in it, it makes it moighty hard vor oi to stand off; only as oi doan't know what else vor to do, oi would go.

Oi ha' been a-thinking that when thou get'st to be an officer oi'll list in the same regiment and go to the wars wi' thee.