"I told you never to allude to him, nor shall you if you stay with me.
Ah!" she added, brightening, "Farmer Boldwood knows!" "O no, ma'am" said Matthew.

"Two of his store ewes got into some vetches t'other day, and were just like these.

He sent a man on horseback here post-haste for Gable, and Gable went and saved 'em.
Farmer Boldwood hev got the thing they do it with.

'Tis a holler pipe, with a sharp pricker inside.

Isn't it, Joseph ?" "Ay--a holler pipe," echoed Joseph.