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Chap. XL. LANGUAGE OF THE VILLAGERS. 173
resembles our own. “ Will’ee drink a glass milk ? ”
was asked of us (words abbreviated) by old
Abel-Iona’s daughter, on our first entrance—and the old
woman called her “ Mary ” instead of Maria,’ as the
name is pronounced by the Danes—and a “ slow ”—
and Mary herself answered “ Yus.” Later the driver
replies to a question, “ Three ”—not tre, a solid th—
“ waggon come after osbroad language like that of
our own peasantry.
The sale was now over, and we prepared to depart.
N.B. The crockery, nickel silver, &c., sold for higher
prices than they had originally cost at the Sheffield
warehouse where they had been purchased.
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