human
And how do you feel now, Evan? he said at last;
gpt
No, father; I am as warm as need be; and what do you think? I have got thirty-eight bob and some coppers which they 'scribed for me.
human
Did they, now? John Holl said. Then after taking in this new fact, and turning it over in different lights, he said to his wife,
gpt
Well, Sarah, it seems to me that if the people who saw our Evan go into the water subscribed well-nigh upon two pounds for the boy, they must have thought that what he did warn't a thing for him to be jawed for, but a brave, good-hearted sort of action; and I ain't no manner of doubt, Sarah, that that's just what you think it yerself, only you are a bit scared over the thought that he might have been drowned, which is natural and woman-like. It seems to me as Evan has done a wery honourable kind o' action. I know as I should have liked to have done it myself, though I holds that a man can't have too much of hot water and plenty of soap in it, cold water allus giving me the shivers, and being no good for getting out dirt--not where its ground in pretty thick. I suppose it's cos of this that I didn't larn to swim. Evan, my boy, your father feels proud of yer, and so does your mother--as proud as a peacock--though she don't think it's right to say so.