I've tied it oop wi' some wet 'bacco, and it'll all grow oop again, same as a cooten finger do." "But someone ought to see it." "Well, someun has sin it.

I showed it to owd Dave, and he said it weer all right.

Tchah! what's the good o' doctors?
Did they cure my ager ?" "Well, go up and ask mother to give you some clean linen rag for it." "Ay," said the rabbit-trapper with a grim smile, "I'll do that." So John Warren went to the Toft, obtained the clean linen rag, but refused to have his wound dressed, and went off again; while the squire knit his brow when he returned soon after, and, taking Dick with him, poled across in the punt to see Dave and make him promise to keep a sharp look-out.
A week passed away, and the frost had come in so keenly that the ice promised to bear, and consequent upon this Dick was at the wheelwright's one evening superintending the finishing up of his pattens, as they called their skates.

Hickathrift had ground the blades until they were perfectly sharp at the edges, and had made a new pair of ashen soles for them, into which he had just finished fitting the steel.
"There, Mester Dick," said the bluff fellow with a grin; "that's a pair o' pattens as you ought 'most to fly in.

Going out in the morning ?" "Yes, Hicky, I shall go directly after breakfast." "Ay, she'll bear splendid to-morrow, and the ice is as hard and black as it can be.