It's a bad thing to be cross-grained," he continued, pocketing his pipe and assisting to arrange the sledge; "me owld grandmother always towld me that, and she wos wise, she wos, beyand ordn'r.

More like Salomon nor anything else." "She must have directed that remark specially to you, I think," said Fred--"(Let Dumps lead, West, he's tougher than the others)--did she not, O'Riley ?" "Be no manes.

It wos to the pig she said it.

Most of her conversation (and she had a power of it) wos wid the pig; and many's the word o' good advice she gave it, as it sat in its usual place beside the fire fore-nint her.

But it wos all thrown away, it wos, for there wosn't another pig in all the length o' Ireland as had sich a will o' its own; and it had a screech, too, when it wosn't plaazed, as bate all the steam whistles in the world, it did.