" Belike, sir, you havena heared as Thias Bede's dead—drownded this morning, or more like overnight, i' the Willow Brook, again' the bridge right i' front o' the house" .
" Master Alick and Miss Jane, " cried one of the nurses to two of the children, " if you go a bouncing up against them bushes you'll fall over into the river and be drownded, and what'll your pa say then" ?