Hardy Was a Zmart Veller
ARGE: Weel, ye zee ’e ’appened to be a zickly child, vor zure the doctor thot ’ee was too weake to live and left ‘im vur dead, but thick voman, midwive they called her, thoit she knew better and
nursed ’im and brought ’im round and gave ’im the chance to live up to ’iz neame (Hardy). GILES: What ’appened to ’im after thick? JARGE: ’ee wasn’t really vit vor the rough size ov life, but ee was a zmart veller, and tuk to learnen like a duck takes to weater, and was zoon head ov
all ’tother children in village. I’ve ’eeard that *tother village lads and lasses used to get ‘ee to Tite their letters for ‘em. "E must have got some vun riting their love letters. Do ye mind ‘ow it coomes out in one ov ‘is books, "The Mayor of Casterbridge.""’ Mother Cuxsom speakin’ to Richard Newson said, "Lord, d’'ye mind Richard, what vools we used.to be when we were younger. Gettin’ a schoolboy to write our love letters for us, and givin’ *im a penny. D’ye mind not to tell other folks what ‘ee put in ‘em. D’ye mind it zeemed as iv thease were is virst lessons in ritin’? Look zee, it’s likely ‘ee began very early to show likin’ for ritin’.’(From a tribute in Dorset dialect to Thomas Hardy, by H. J. Poole and Rev. F. J. Usher, 2YA, June 2.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 10
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243Hardy Was a Zmart Veller New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 10
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