human
Well, what 's the best news? I've brought 'e fair-fashioned weather at any rate. The air 's so soft as milk, even up here, an' you can see the green things grawin' to make up for lost time. Sun was proper hot on my face as I travelled along. How be the poor little lad?
gpt
Alive, that's all. Doctor's thrawed un awver now.
human
Never! Yet I've knawed even Parsons to make mistakes. I've brought 'e a braave bunch o' berries, got by the gracious gudeness of Miller from Newton Abbot; also a jelly; also a bottle o' brandy--the auld stuff from down cellar--I brushed the Dartmoor dew, as 't is called, off the bottle myself; also a fowl for the missis.
gpt
No call to have come. 'T is all awver bar the end.
human
Never say it while the child's livin'! They 'm magical li'l twoads for givin' a doctor the lie. You 'm wisht an' weary along o' night watchings.
gpt
Us must faace it. Ban't no oncommon thing. Hope's dead in me these many days; an' dying now in Phoebe--dying cruel by inches. She caan't bring herself to say 'gude-by' to the li'l darling bwoy.
human
What mother could? What do Mrs. Blanchard the elder say?
gpt
She plucks up 'bout it. She 'm awver hopeful.
human
Doan't say so! A very wise woman her.
gpt
I be cheerin' your gude man up,
human
I've brought 'e a chick for your awn eatin' an'--