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hadn't been asleep long befoor he wakken'd wi a varry uncomfortabie
feelin', but as his wife wor hard asleep he didn't like to disturb
her. He roll'd o' one side an' then o'th' tother, an' rub'd his legs
an' scratched his back, but he couldn't settle do what he wod. In a
bit summat made him jump straight up ov an end, an' if he hadn't been
dacently browt up, it's very likely he mud ha' sed some faal words,
Wi' him jumpin' up soa sudden, th' wife wakken'd, an' jumpt up as
weel, but as th' bed heead war abaat six inch lower nor that shoo'd
bin used to, shoo hit her neet cap agean th' top an' fell back wi a
reglar sass. "Whativer is ther to do, Sammy," shoo sed, as sooin as
shoo could spaik, "strike a leet' wi ta!" Sammy gate a leet, an'
blushed an ovver his face, for it wor th' fust time onybody had seen
him dressed that way sin he wor a little lad. "Aw dooant know what
ther is to do," he sed, "but aw cannot bide i' that bed, an' that's a
fact." "What!" shoo says, "are ta ruein' o' thi bargain bi nah? but
tha's no need to freat, for aw con spare thee at ony time." "Nay,
Jenny," he sed, it's nooan thee 'at maks me uneasy, but aw fancy
ther's summat wick i' that bed besides thee an' me.
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