_Enter_ FARMING MAN _from barn_.
FARMING MAN.
Miss, the farming men 'ull hev their dinner i' the long barn, and the
master 'ud be straaenge an' pleased if you'd step in fust, and see that
all be right and reg'lar fur 'em afoor he cooem.
[_Exit_.
DORA.
I go. Master Dobson, did you hear what I said?
DOBSON.
Yeas, yeas! I'll not meddle wi' 'im if he doaent meddle wi' meae.
(_Exit_ DORA.) Coomly, says she. I niver thowt o' mysen i' that waaey;
but if she'd taaeke to ma i' that waaey, or ony waaey, I'd slaaeve out my
life fur 'er. 'Coomly to look at,' says she--but she said it
spiteful-like. To look at--yeas, 'coomly'; and she mayn't be so fur out
theer. But if that be nowt to she, then it be nowt to me. (_Looking off
stage_.) Schoolmaster! Why if Steer han't haxed schoolmaster to
dinner, thaw 'e knaws I was hallus ageaen heving schoolmaster i' the
parish! fur him as be handy wi' a book bean't but haaefe a hand at a
pitchfork.
_Enter_ WILSON.
Well, Wilson. I seed that one cow o' thine i' the pinfold ageaen as I
wur a-coomin' 'ere.
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