an' sniffin' up th' air an' get him just soaked
through wi' sunshine. An' we munnot lose no
time about it."

When he was very much interested he often
spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times
he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could
better understand. But she loved his broad Yorkshire
and had in fact been trying to learn to speak
it herself. So she spoke a little now.

"Aye, that we mun," she said (which meant
"Yes, indeed, we must"). "I'll tell thee what
us'll do first," she proceeded, and Dickon grinned,
because when the little wench tried to twist her
tongue into speaking Yorkshire it amused him very
much. "He's took a graidely fancy to thee. He
wants to see thee and he wants to see Soot an' Captain.
When I go back to the house to talk to him
I'll ax him if tha' canna' come an' see him to-morrow
mornin' -- an' bring tha' creatures wi'
thee -- an' then -- in a bit, when there's more
leaves out, an' happen a bud or two, we'll get him
to come out an' tha' shall push him in his chair an'
we'll bring him here an' show him everything."

When she stopped she was quite proud of herself.
She had never made a long speech in Yorkshire
before and she had remembered very well.

"Tha' mun talk a bit o' Yorkshire like that to
Mester Colin," Dickon chuckled. "Tha'll make

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