"I tell ee the evidence be main strong agin him, and whether he be innocent or not he will find it hard to clear hisself.

Oi don't think much the worst of him myself if he done it, and most in Varley will be o' my way o' thinking.

Foxey war a tyrant if ever there war one, and the man what was so hard a maister to his hands would be loike to be hard to his wife's children." "Don't speak like that, feyther," Polly said; "murder is murder, you know." "Ay, lass, and human natur be human natur, and it be no use your going agin it.

If he ha been and ill treated the boy, and I don't doubt as he has, thou may'st argue all noight, but thou won't get me to say as oi blames him much if he has done it.

Oi don't suppose as he meant to kill him--not vor a moment.