human
She looks so well you wouldn't think it was herself that was in it at all, I knew what was in their minds. Afterwards I was told that the day the illness began she had been churning, and a strange woman came in and said,
gpt
Give me a hold of the staff and I'll do a bit of the churning for you. But she refused and the woman said,
human
It's the last time you'll have the chance of refusing anyone that asks you
gpt
That's a fine woman, or such a thing and not to say
human
God bless her. I never believed that till a man that lives in the next holding to my own told me what happened to a springer he had. She was as fine a creature as ever you seen, and one day a friend of his came in to see him, and when he was going away,
gpt
That's a grand cow, says he, but he didn't say
human
God bless it. Well, the owner of the cow went into the house and he sat down by the fire and lit a pipe, and when he had the pipe smoked out he came out again, and there she was lying down and not able to stir. So he remembered what happened and he went after his friend, and found him in a neighbour's house. And he brought him back with him, and made him go into the field and say,
gpt
God bless it,
human
God bless it,
gpt
You're the straightest man that's in it.