The History of David Grieve

'Tak your hat, Louie! Yo're allus leavin summat behind yer.' 'David, yo go for 't, ' said the child addressed to a boy by her side, nodding her head insolently towards the speaker, a tall and bony woman, who stood on the steps the children had just descended, holding out a battered hat. 'Yo're a careless thing, Louie, ' said the boy, but he went back and took the hat. 'Mak her tie it, ' said the woman, showing an antiquated pair of strings. 'If she loses it she needna coom cryin for anudder. She'd lose her yead if it wor loos