| (1, 0) 6 | I don't like black─it is remind me of the latter end. |
| (1, 0) 8 | Can't help joking, you old fool. |
| (1, 0) 9 | You will put your foot in it some day. |
| (1, 0) 10 | Name of man! |
| (1, 0) 12 | You can put all your legs in this─if you had twenty. |
| (1, 0) 14 | 'Spose I put a pin in here. |
| (1, 0) 16 | What 'ould Josiah say when he sit down? |
| (1, 0) 17 | Same as the frog when he come to know himself─ |
| (1, 0) 18 | |Arglw'dd|! how you made me jump! |
| (1, 0) 23 | Devil eat me! |
| (1, 0) 24 | I'd give a sovereign to do it, and stand behind the door, and see Josiah jump. |
| (1, 0) 25 | He 'ould say something, too. |
| (1, 0) 26 | (Laughs.) |
| (Josiah) {Solemnly.} | |
| (Josiah) Merlin! | |
| (1, 0) 29 | Talk of the ─ |
| (1, 0) 30 | Sir, to you. |
| (Josiah) {Sternly.} | |
| (1, 0) 34 | Well, indeed, there's a humbug you are. |
| (1, 0) 35 | If I didn't know different, I 'ould think you was one of the twelve 'Postles, at least. |
| (1, 0) 36 | But, there, your black clothes is the best part of you, and I made them. |
| (1, 0) 37 | Come you, Josiah, if you cheek me, you shall have it back. |
| (1, 0) 38 | All piece-work I do for you. |
| (1, 0) 40 | You pay me for this old trousis; and there is enough work in it for two─not a damn penny for my time. |
| (Josiah) {Looking nervously towards the door.} | |
| (Josiah) Remember the respectability of the establishment, if you please. | |
| (1, 0) 46 | All right, Josiah─joking I was. |
| (1, 0) 47 | I can't help it, indeed. |
| (1, 0) 48 | There is something crooked in me somewhere─same as poor old Jonathan o'r Cwm. |
| (1, 0) 49 | He was always laughing when he was at a funeral. |
| (Josiah) It was most unseemly. | |
| (Josiah) It was most unseemly. | |
| (1, 0) 51 | Yes, but he couldn't help it, poor dab. |
| (1, 0) 52 | He was thinking about the funny things in the life of the departed. |
| (1, 0) 53 | If he didn't do that, he 'ould cry. |
| (Josiah) Poor Jonathan! he was over-fond of his glass. | |
| (Josiah) Poor Jonathan! he was over-fond of his glass. | |
| (1, 0) 55 | His |glass|? |
| (1, 0) 56 | |Go-darw|! his |glasses| you do mean. |
| (1, 0) 57 | One glass was no good to Jonathan at all. |
| (1, 0) 58 | You remember the day we buried him, and what a |beautiful| coffin he had? |
| (Josiah) I do, very well─it was good enough to be put into the ground to rot. | |
| (Josiah) I do, very well─it was good enough to be put into the ground to rot. | |
| (1, 0) 60 | You made a good profit on it, and it was only a common old coffin, too─rotten 'ood, and moths in the cloth─shameful! |
| (Josiah) Not shameful, Merlin─it was business. | |
| (Josiah) Not shameful, Merlin─it was business. | |
| (1, 0) 62 | Business is a big rogue, very often. |
| (1, 0) 63 | Well, there 'u are. |
| (1, 0) 64 | But you will be caught, some day, remember─like I was, coming home from Jonathan's funeral. |
| (Josiah) Staggering home, Merlin. | |
| (Josiah) Staggering home, Merlin. | |
| (1, 0) 66 | Don't you talk─you had a drop yourself, too. |
| (1, 0) 67 | You can drink very well─when you haven't got to pay for it. |
| (Josiah) {Looking round nervously towards the door.} | |
| (Josiah) I am not accustomed to strong drinks, and it upset me. | |
| (1, 0) 71 | Did it make you see the devil? |
| (Josiah) {Snappishly.} | |
| (1, 0) 75 | Never mind, Josiah, you shall see him next time, p'raps. |
| (1, 0) 76 | I did have better luck. |
| (1, 0) 77 | I did see him under the trees in the lane. |
| (1, 0) 78 | The rain was coming down─drip! drip! and put out the flames from his mouth. |
| (1, 0) 79 | He was groaning awful─if it wasn't the wind in the trees─and dressed quite inspectable in a white sheet. |
| (1, 0) 80 | When I was close by him, he said to me, quite pleasant─"Your time is come!" |
| (1, 0) 81 | And I said back to him─"Perhaps |your| time is come, if you try to stop me." |
| (1, 0) 82 | I couldn't be sure that I did know him by his voice, though I have heard it many times coming over the mountains in the dark. |
| (1, 0) 83 | P'raps, I thought to myself, it is some fellow playing tricks.. |
| (1, 0) 84 | So, I answer him a bit careful: "If you are an angel from Heaven, you will let me off for the sake of my sister Jane." |
| (Josiah) {Piously.} | |
| (Josiah) She was, indeed, an angel─ | |
| (1, 0) 88 | Don't stop me, mun, in the middle of my story─it is bad manners. |
| (1, 0) 89 | And then I said─"If you are the devil, you 'ont touch me because you are friends with my brother-in-law, Josiah Jones." |
| (Josiah) Surely, you didn't say that? | |
| (Josiah) It might have been one of the deacons. | |
| (1, 0) 92 | Shut up, and let me go on. |
| (1, 0) 93 | The devil is waiting in the cold, remember, and he is not used to it. |
| (1, 0) 94 | Blame you he will if he get very bad, and perhaps call you to make his gruel for him. |
| (1, 0) 95 | Indeed now, put a bit of poison in it on the sly if you get the chance. |
| (1, 0) 96 | Oh! I was up to my Nabs. |
| (1, 0) 97 | I lifted my stick, and said like a roarin' lion─"If you are a man─look out!" and I hit him across his back─his back, I 'spose it was, because he was all the same shape in the sheet, and he was off like Billy-o! |
| (1, 0) 98 | And I am off, too. |
| (1, 0) 100 | It is dinner time. |
| (Morgan) {Apologetically.} | |
| (1, 0) 126 | Tuppence for yours, little witch! |
| (Nan) Not for sale! | |
| (Josiah) You come here a great deal too much for your good; and I am afraid Merlin encourages you. | |
| (1, 0) 135 | Look you, Josiah, she is my sister's child, and if you keep her from me, I will go somewhere else, so there! |
| (Josiah) Temper─temper, Merlin! | |
| (Josiah) I don't want you to leave me. | |
| (1, 0) 138 | I know that very well. |
| (1, 0) 139 | I keep your bissness together for you when you go off on the spree. |
| (Josiah) Merlin! you ought to know better than to say such a thing─before my daughter, too. | |
| (Josiah) Merlin! you ought to know better than to say such a thing─before my daughter, too. | |
| (1, 0) 142 | Never mind, Josiah─I will say when I go off on the spree, if you like. |
| (Nan) Oh, Merlin, you are making it all up as you go on. | |
| (1, 0) 145 | That is why you all come to me when you are in trouble. |
| (1, 0) 146 | I have got a story for everybody, and a remedy for everything─from heartache to toothache. |
| (1, 0) 147 | One will come because he has got trouble with the law, another because he has got trouble with his sweetheart, and another because he has got trouble with the minister. |
| (1, 0) 148 | I settle everything for them, and measure them for a suit of clothes before they can turn round, and Josiah Jones do get the profit. |
| (1, 0) 149 | He is a prophet himself, you see, and the head of a big, big family of profits. |
| (Nan) {Laughing.} | |
| (Nan) You turn words out of their meaning, you wicked man. | |
| (1, 0) 152 | Keep you quiet, Nan, or I will be even with you directly. |
| (Nan) I won't say another word. | |
| (Josiah) {Nan hesitates.} | |
| (1, 0) 157 | Look you, Nan, |I| am the bissness, not your father; and if he get cross with you, he had better look out. |
| (1, 0) 158 | I will have a new shop myself, so big as the Crystal Palace, and you shall come and live with me, and every young man in the place will be ordering clothes every day of the week─for the sake of coming to see you. |
| (Nan) You are an old tease! | |
| (1, 0) 177 | My goodness! |
| (1, 0) 178 | Nan, it is only witches─Welsh witches─can talk like that. |
| (Josiah) {With a furtive glance of admiration at Nan.} | |
| (Josiah) You have learnt a lot of nonsense at school, Anne Jones. | |
| (1, 0) 181 | At school? |
| (1, 0) 182 | No─no─things like that is in the soul, not in the school. |
| (1, 0) 183 | She is not like me. |
| (1, 0) 184 | I am only a poet when I am hungry. |
| (1, 0) 185 | That is the time when the froth do rise to a man's head, if he haven't got much balance. |
| (Nan) Why, you haven't been home to dinner. | |
| (1, 0) 192 | I didn't know that you had any beer in the house. |
| (1, 0) 193 | All right, Josiah─I will leave you a drop. |
| (1, 0) 194 | Where is the cask, Nan? |
| (Josiah) Indeed, it is hard to put up with Merlin, sometimes. | |
| (1, 0) 309 | Ha! rascal! rascal! |
| (Nan) Oh! | |
| (Nan) Tell him, Morgan─everything! | |
| (1, 0) 313 | Well, indeed, Morgan bach, here is nice goings on for an inspectable young man. |
| (1, 0) 314 | What do you think Josiah Jones 'ould say if he did see you? |
| (Morgan) {Defiantly.} | |
| (Morgan) As long as Nan cares for me, I don't care a rap─ | |
| (1, 0) 318 | "Rap," indeed! |
| (1, 0) 319 | "Damn" you was going to say─I could see it coming out of your mouth ─a fine big one, too. |
| (1, 0) 320 | You 'ouldn't turn your back on a word like that if you had been brought up proper ─like me. |
| (1, 0) 321 | All the same, Josiah Jones have done you fine this time. |
| (Morgan) How do you know? | |
| (1, 0) 324 | You see the ink on my fingers? |
| (1, 0) 325 | Well, I know as well as I see that. |
| (1, 0) 326 | He came in to tell me about it. |
| (1, 0) 327 | He didn't want the house─he didn't know about it till you did tell him. |
| (1, 0) 328 | My goodness! he is sharp. |
| (1, 0) 329 | And he get £50 out of you for nothing? |
| (Morgan) {Bitterly.} | |
| (Morgan) He did. | |
| (1, 0) 332 | Shame─shame! |
| (1, 0) 333 | Did you sign any paper? |
| (Morgan) {Angrily.} | |
| (Morgan) No─I didn't. | |
| (1, 0) 336 | All right, my boy─don't trouble any more about it. |
| (1, 0) 337 | He can't get a ha'penny out of you. |
| (Morgan) But I can't go back on my word. | |
| (Morgan) But I can't go back on my word. | |
| (1, 0) 339 | You can't go straight with a man like that. |
| (1, 0) 340 | He is as crooked as a corkscrew, and as sly as a fox. |
| (1, 0) 341 | It is a wonder he has got a daughter like Nan. |
| (1, 0) 342 | But there, she is like me─like my sister Jane, her mother, I mean. |
| (Morgan) Don't talk about her, Merlin. | |
| (Morgan) He will always stand between us. | |
| (1, 0) 346 | He 'ould let you have her to-morrow, and make a partner of you─if─ |
| (Morgan) {Interrupting impatiently.} | |
| (1, 0) 351 | Good boy! |
| (1, 0) 352 | That's how I like to hear 'u talk. |
| (1, 0) 353 | But think of Nan. |
| (1, 0) 354 | There is no one for her but you. |
| (1, 0) 355 | Do you want to break her heart? |