‘Hello! my men,’ ’ee sez, ‘what are you men all lyin’ down for?’ (Ashypelt bein’ dressed up, lookin’ gentleman, they didn’t know ’im.)
‘We’re waitin’ for a brother of ours by the name o’ Ashypelt,’ they sed.
‘Would you know ’im if you would see ’im?’ ’ee sed.
‘Oh! yes, we would know ’im very well. Twelve months an’ a day we ’ad to meet on these roads.’
So ’ee sez to ’em, ‘I’m your brother Ashypelt,’ ’ee sed to the one.
So they looks at ’im.
‘If you’re our brother Ashypelt, show your arm; you ’ave a mark on it what we know to.’
So they looks at this mark.
‘Oh! it is my brother Ashypelt,’ they sez, blessin’ ’im an’ kissin’ ’im an’ slobberin’, an’ so on.
So ’ee gives ’em a suit o’ clo’es apiece, these eleven brothers, to put on. [[242]]