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Tilly set slippers before the kitchen fire, and she also went

to bed, leaving the door unlocked Then the farm was in

darkness, in the rain

At eleven o'clock it was still raining Toham, and buttoned his coat

"Oh, well," he said cheerfully, "it's rained on me before

Put 'er in, Jack, my lad, put her in--Tha'rt a rare old

cock, Jacky-boy, wi' a belly on thee as does credit to thy

drink, if not to thy corn Co' up lass, let's get off ter th'

old hoht!

There'll be no volcanoes after this Hey, Jack,slender feller, which of us is Noah? It seeh

the water-works is bursted Ducks and ayquatic fowl 'll be king

o' the castle at this rate--dove an' olive branch an' all

Stand up then, gel, stand up, we're not stoppin' here all night,

even if you thought as I' rain

wouldn't make anybody think they was drunk Hey, Jack--does

rain-water wash the sense in, or does it wash it out?" And he

laughed to himself at the joke

He was always asha, always apologetic to the horse His apologetic frame

made him facetious He are of his inability to walk quite

straight Nevertheless his will kept stiff and attentive, in all

his fuddleness

He ates of the innyard