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  • 'Gronny, little Job Wallwork's getten crushed in th' four-foot, and it's a'most up wi 'him.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Aw shouldn't ha' caared so mich, Gronny, if he'd deed as yor lad deed -- i 'his own bed, an' wi 'a fayver; bud he wur crushed wi' a lump o 'coile!

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Aw say, Gronny, Jesus made deead fo'k yer Him when He spok', didn't He? '

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Well, Gronny, if I wur God Almeety I'd be agen lettin' lumps o 'coile fall and crush th' life aat o 'lads like aar Job.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Aw dare say as yo're reet, Gronny; aw's cry and fret a deal over little Job, but then aw's hev summat to think abaat, shornd I?

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Aw wish God's other room wurnd so far off, Gronny -- nobbud t'other side o' th 'wall instead o' th 'story aboon.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • 'Well, Gronny, aw tell thee, aw cornd see it i' that way yet; 'and again the mother caressed the body of her son.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

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