"I've given evidence to law folks before today," she said.

"You'll want to know what I could tell before a judge, like ?" "Of course," replied Brereton.
"Well, then----" she continued.

"You see, master, since my old man died, I've lived all alone up here.

I've a bit to live on--not over much, but enough.

All the same, if I can save a bit by getting a hare or a rabbit, or a bird or two now and then, off the moor--well, I do! We all of us does that, as lives on the moor: some folks calls it poaching, but we call it taking our own.