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you be in your groun’ then, I do zee, A-workèn and a-zingèn lik’ a bee. How do it answer? what d’ye think about it? D’ye think ’tis better wi’ it than without it? A-recknèn rent, an’ time, an’ zeed to stock it, D’ye think that you be any thing in pocket?

O’, ’tis a goodish help to woone, I’m sure o’t. If I had not a-got it, my poor bwones Would now ha’ eäch’d a-crackèn stwones Upon the road; I wish I had zome mwore o’t

I wish the girt woones had a-got the greäce To let out land lik’ this in ouer pleäce; But I do fear there’ll never be nwone vor us, An’ I can’t tell whatever we shall do: We be a-most starvèn, an’ we’d goo To ’merica, if we’d enough to car us

Why ’twer the squire, good now! a worthy man, That vu’st brought into ouer pleäce the plan, He zaid he’d let a vew odd eäcres O’ land to us poor leäb’rèn men;