"
"And the gentlemen of the hunt have paid you nothing."
"I had four half-crowns once," said the woman.
"If you don't send the heads you don't get it," said the man, "and
then they'll keep you waiting months and months, just for their
pleasures. Who's a going to put up with that? I ain't."
"And now you're going to law?"
"I am,--like a man. His Lordship ain't nothin' to me. I ain't
afeard of his Lordship."
"Will it cost you much?"
"That's just what it will do, sir," said the woman.
"Didn't I tell you, hold your jaw?"
"The gentleman was going to offer to help us a little, Dan."
"I was going to say that I am interested in the case, and that you
have all my good wishes. I do not like to offer pecuniary help."
"You're very good, sir; very good. This bit of land is mine; not a
doubt of it;--but we're poor, sir."
"Indeed we is," said the woman. "What with taxes and rates, and
them foxes as won't let me rear a head of poultry and them brutes
of birds as eats up the corn, I often tells him he'd better sell
the bit o' land and just set up for a public."
"It belonged to my feyther and grandfeyther," said Goarly.
Then the Senator's heart was softened again and he explained at
great length that he would watch the case and if he saw his way
clearly, befriend it with substantial aid.
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