The leaves is uncurlin' so you can see 'em--an', my word, th' nice smells there is about!" sniffing with his happy turned-up nose.

"An' that poor lad lyin' shut up an' seein' so little that he gets to thinkin' o' things as sets him screamin'.

Eh! my! we mun get him out here--we mun get him watchin' an listenin' an' sniffin' up th' air an' get him just soaked through wi' sunshine.

An' we munnot lose no time about it." When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.

But she loved his broad Yorkshire and had in fact been trying to learn to speak it herself.