‘Good-mornin', Abram. Hasto ought fresh daan i' th' village?’
‘Plenty, Enoch; hasto yerd naught?’
‘Nowe; I hevn't bin daan fro' th' moors sin' Sundo.’
‘Then yo've yerd naught abaat Moses Fletcher?’
‘Nowe; nor I durnd want. When yo' cornd yer owt good abaat a mon yo'd better yer naught at all.’
‘But I've summat good to tell thee abaat owd Moses.’
‘Nay, lad, I think nod. Th' Etheop cornd change his skin, nor th' leopard his spots.’
‘But Moses hes ged'n aat o' his skin, and changed it for a gradely good un and o'.’