'I'm Sorry To Disturb You,' He Says,
'but Women Don't Understand Things Properly,' He Says, 'an' I Always
Think It Best To Speak To A Man.'
"'That's all very well,' I says, 'but how long do you intend to keep me
here with nothing but this on?'
"'I'm just coming to it,' he says, not a bit put out. 'It's like this,'
he says. 'I'm from the north - Newcastle way - an' on my way to
Dorchester, looking for work,' he says.
"'Yes, I see you are!' says I, looking him up and down, fierce-like.
"'Last evening,' he says, 'I come to a wood about a mile from this 'ere
village, and I says to myself, "I'll stay here and go on in the
morning." So I began looking about and found some fern and cut an
armful and made a bed under a oak-tree. I slep' there till about three
this morning. When I opened my eyes, what should I see but a bird
sitting on the ground close to me? I no sooner see it than I says to
myself, "That bird is as good as a breakfast," I says. So I just put
out my hand and copped it. And here it is!' And out he pulled a bird
from under his coat.
"'That's a young jackdaw,' I says.
"'You may call it a jackdaw if you like,' says he; 'but what I want you
to understand is that it ain't no ornary bird.
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