The History of David Grieve

'Tak your hat, Louie! Yo're allus leavin summat behind yer.''David, yo go for 't,' said the child addressed to a boy by her side, nodding her head insolently towards the speaker, a tall and bony woman, who stood on the steps the children had just descended, holding out a battered hat.'Yo're a careless thing, Louie,' said the boy, but he went back and took the hat.'Mak her tie it,' said the woman, showing an antiquated pair of strings. 'If she loses it she needna coom cryin for anudder. She'd lose her yead if it wor loose.'