Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II BOYHOOD AND YOUTH
- CHAPTER III A ROAMING COMMISSION
- CHAPTER IV YOUTH
- CHAPTER V WANDERINGS: AND BOYHOOD AGAIN
- CHAPTER VI HARVEST TALK
- CHAPTER VII SUNDRY APPRECIATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII A FAVOURITE HORSE
- CHAPTER IX OTHER HORSES
- CHAPTER X “MUCH HAVE I SEEN AND” — DONE
- CHAPTER XI FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON WELL-SINKING
- CHAPTER XII HOW THE HARVESTERS TRAVEL
- CHAPTER XIII PRACTICAL JOKES
- CHAPTER XIV NICKNAMES
- CHAPTER XV PIGS AND THE WEATHER
- CHAPTER XVI CHRISTMAS—AND AFTER
- CHAPTER XVII GYPSIES
- CHAPTER XVIII OLD BIGGS
- CHAPTER XIX LAYING TURF
- CHAPTER XX FROM BEES TO APRIL FOOLS
- CHAPTER XXI CONTAINS A STORY OF WEYHILL FAIR
- CHAPTER XXII CONCERNING MANY MATTERS
- CHAPTER XXIII EXASPERATION
- CHAPTER XXIV WEATHER AND TOOTHACHE
- CHAPTER XXV PETS
- CHAPTER XXVI OF PIGS AND CATS
- CHAPTER XXVII CRICKET
- CHAPTER XXVIII A SHIFTY EMPLOYER
- CHAPTER XXIX GYPSIES AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXX OUR DOMINANT TOPIC
- CHAPTER XXXI THE BOOK-LEARNED
- CHAPTER XXXII ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL
- CHAPTER XXXIII PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER XXXIV HOPS
- CHAPTER XXXV A WET HOP-PICKING—CONCLUSION
CHAPTER XXVIII - A SHIFTY EMPLOYER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II BOYHOOD AND YOUTH
- CHAPTER III A ROAMING COMMISSION
- CHAPTER IV YOUTH
- CHAPTER V WANDERINGS: AND BOYHOOD AGAIN
- CHAPTER VI HARVEST TALK
- CHAPTER VII SUNDRY APPRECIATIONS
- CHAPTER VIII A FAVOURITE HORSE
- CHAPTER IX OTHER HORSES
- CHAPTER X “MUCH HAVE I SEEN AND” — DONE
- CHAPTER XI FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON WELL-SINKING
- CHAPTER XII HOW THE HARVESTERS TRAVEL
- CHAPTER XIII PRACTICAL JOKES
- CHAPTER XIV NICKNAMES
- CHAPTER XV PIGS AND THE WEATHER
- CHAPTER XVI CHRISTMAS—AND AFTER
- CHAPTER XVII GYPSIES
- CHAPTER XVIII OLD BIGGS
- CHAPTER XIX LAYING TURF
- CHAPTER XX FROM BEES TO APRIL FOOLS
- CHAPTER XXI CONTAINS A STORY OF WEYHILL FAIR
- CHAPTER XXII CONCERNING MANY MATTERS
- CHAPTER XXIII EXASPERATION
- CHAPTER XXIV WEATHER AND TOOTHACHE
- CHAPTER XXV PETS
- CHAPTER XXVI OF PIGS AND CATS
- CHAPTER XXVII CRICKET
- CHAPTER XXVIII A SHIFTY EMPLOYER
- CHAPTER XXIX GYPSIES AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXX OUR DOMINANT TOPIC
- CHAPTER XXXI THE BOOK-LEARNED
- CHAPTER XXXII ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL
- CHAPTER XXXIII PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER XXXIV HOPS
- CHAPTER XXXV A WET HOP-PICKING—CONCLUSION
Summary
“My wife's sister come down to my place 's mornin'—her what broke her hand, ye know She was gwine 'ome again, but I says ' No, stop now you be here. Stop and have the day. You don't come so often as you need hurry back afore dark.' Anybody 'd think to look at her she was younger 'n my wife, 'stead o' bein' two year older. Sixty-six she is, but she could jump over a dozen o' my old gal, now.”
“Perhaps she hasn't worked so hard?”
“Always been a very 'ard-workin' woman. And reared thirteen children too. But she could jump over a dozen o' my old gal. She (i.e., the ‘old gal’) is sixty-four, though.”
“And you?”
“I be about sixty … Not so old as my wife.
She's sixty-four, and 'er sister sixty-six.”
“How is her arm?”
“Oh, her arm's purty well. But where 'twas broke across her wrist she don't git no use of't 't all. Swelled up it is. … Four months now since she bin like that. … She did stare at our 'taters. She en't set eyes on a new one yet, so I put up a great bag full for her … They en't got none at home yet—and in their good ground too.
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- The Bettesworth BookTalks with a Surrey Peasant, pp. 241 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1901