If tha maun know.

Why, is there a weddin’ at Underwood,

As tha ne’d trudge up here?

—It’s Widow Naylor’s weddin’-dress,

An’ ’er’s wantin it, I hear.

’Er doesna want no weddin-dress ...

What—but what dost mean?

—Doesn’t ter know what I mean, Tim?—Yi,

Tha must’ a’ been hard to wean!

Tha’rt a good-un at suckin-in yet, Timmy;