There now--ha, ha, ha!--oh, but I'm as wake as wather wid
what I laughed. Well now, Pether, didn't I manage bravely--didn't I?"
"Wait till we see the profits first, Ellish--crockery's very tindher
goods."
"Ay!--just wait, an'I'll engage I'll turn the penny. The family's risin'
wid us."--
"Very thrue," replied Peter, giving a sly wink at the wife--"no doubt of
it."
"--Kisin' wid us--I tell you to have sinse, Pether; an' it's our duty to
have something for the crathurs when they grow up."
"Well, that's a thruth--sure I'm not sayin' against it."
"I know that; but what I say is, if we hould an, we may make money.
Everything, for so far, has thruv wid us, God be praised for it. There's
another thing in my mind, that I'll be tellin' you some o' these days."
"I believe, Ellish, you dhrame about makin' money."
"Well, an' I might do worse; when I'm dhramin' about it, I'm doin' no
sin to any one. But, listen, you must keep the house to-morrow while I'm
at the market. Won't you, Pether?"
"An' who's to open the dhrain in the bottom below?"
"That can be done the day afther. Won't you, abouchal?"
"Ellish, you're a deludher, I tell you. Sweet words;--sowl, you'd
smooth a furze bush wid sweet words. How-an-ever, I will keep the house
to-morrow, till we see the great things you'll do wid your crockery.
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