ONE:"Quite so," said Albert, who seemed to have learned sarcasm in exile"h?morrhage is so deuced easy to sham."
TWO:"Wot's thatin themselves?"
THREE:Twenty brawny hands grasped successively that of the spokesman, and an applauding murmur ran through the meeting.He turned and walked slowly homewards, a smile on his lips. As he passed the orchard, where a crop of plums was ripening, the shrill whir of a bird-rattle made him look up. There in the long grass stood his young Albert, dutifully scaring sparrows from the trees. He had been there all the afternoon, and Reuben[Pg 113] beckoned to him to come in to tea. Further on, in the yard, he encountered Robert feeding the chickens out of an enormous bowl carried by Pete, whose arms with difficulty embraced its girth. He summoned these two in. His family trotted after him at a respectful distance. They did not speak, except to say "Oo" occasionally to each other.
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