I should be sorely worried to hear them long, and would rather thrash out a load of corn than listen long to the clacking of their tongues." "Thou wilt be sicker still of them before thou hast done with them.

It is one of the duties of us apprentices to listen to the teachers, and if I had my way, we would have an apprentices' riot, and demand to be kept to the terms of our indentures, which say nothing about preachers.

What is the way of thinking of this uncle of yours ?" "He is a prudent man," Roger said, "and says but little.

For myself, I care nothing either way, and cannot understand what they are making this pother about.

So far as I can see, folks only want to be quiet, and do their work.