Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
1036
Enquire within upon everything
·
Robert Kemp Philp
128
An
ould
man
found,
one
day,
a
young
gentleman's
portmantle,
as
he
were
a
going
to
es
dennar;
he
took'd
et
en
and
gived
et
to
es
wife,
and
said,
"Mally,
here's
a
roul
of
lither,
look,
see,
I
suppoase
some
poor
ould
shoemaker
or
other
have
los'en;
tak'en,
and
put'en
a
top
of
the
teaster
of
tha
bed;
he'll
be
glad
to
hab'en
agin
sum
day,
I
dear
say."
The
ould
man,
Jan,
that
was
es
neame,
went
to
es
work
as
before.
Mally
then
opened
the
portmantle,
and
found
en
et
three
hunderd
pounds.
Soon
after
thes,
the
ould
man
not
being
very
well,
Mally
said,
"Jan,
I'ave
saaved
away
a
little
money,
by
the
bye,
and
as
thee
caan't
read
or
write,
thee
shu'st
go
to
scool"
(he
were
then
nigh
threescore
and
ten).
He
went
but
a
very
short
time,
and
comed
hoam
one
day
and
said,
"Mally,
I
waint
go
to
scool
no
more,
'caase
the
childer
do
be
laffen
at
me:
they
can
tell
their
letters,
and
I
caan't
tell
my
A,
B,
C,
and
I
wud
rayther
go
to
work
agen."
"Do
as
thee
wool,"
ses
Mally.
Jan
had
not
been
out
many
days,
afore
Vhe
young
gentleman
came
by
that
lost
the
portmantle,
and
said,
"Well,
my
ould
man,
did'ee
see
or
hear
tell
o'
sich
a
thing
as
a
portmantle?"
"Port-mantle,
sar,
was't
that
un,
sumthing
like
thickey?"
(pointing
to
one
behind
es
saddle).
"I
vound
one
the
t'other
day
zackly
like
that."
"Where
es,
et?"
"Come
along,
I
carr'd'en
and
gov'en
to
my
ould
'ooman,
Mally;
thee
sha't
av'en,
nevr
vear.--Mally,
where
es
that
roul
of
lither
I
broft
en
tould
thee
to
put
en
a
top
o'
the
teaster
of
the
bed,
afore
I
go'd
to
scool?"
"Drat
thee
emperance,"
said
the
young
gentleman;
"thee
art
bewattled;
that
were
afore
I
were
born."
So
he
druv'd
off,
and
left
all
the
three
hunderd
pounds
with
Jan
and
Mally.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
