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Forness, _Spedding_ for
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Pedder, and _Coniston_ for
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Odinsmere, as the writer certainly intended, becomes a very vivid and interesting picture of Coniston folk and their surroundings at the beginning of the last century. It describes the smith
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George Forness as the well-to-do and industrious craftsman, in his busy workshop, surrounded by the village gossips at Candlemas. To him enters
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bound next morning for Ulverston, to settle accounts. The smith entrusts him with money to pay his iron bill at Newlands, and save himself a journey. The next scene shows us a lane through the deerpark before dawn; Matthew on his half-broken mare attacked by a wastrel who has overheard the conversation, and now tries his unaccustomed hand at highway robbery. The mare throws him down, and Matthew gallops away believing his unknown assailant to be dead. Ten months later Matthew is called from his house in Tilberthwaite to the death-bed of Tom Bratton, and comes back subdued and silent.
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What did he want wi' yee? his family clamoured.
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To ex me to forgive him.
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Then it _was_ him 'at tried to rob ye?
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Niver ye mind wha tried to rob me--neahbody _did_ rob me!
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And what did ye say till him?
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I ext him to forgive me, and we yan forgev t'udder.