k th' next day, an' shoo sed,

"Naah, Dick, ther's a chonce for yo to pleeas me--yo know aw've axed yo
all th' summer to tak me raand to see th' parks i' Bradforth, for aw've
nivver seen one on em, exceptin Lister's, an' that's becoss it's soa
near--they tell me 'at th' flaars i' Peel's park, an' up at Horton, are
reeal beautiful."

"We'll goa, Mary," Dick sed, "an' up to Bowlin Park too."

Shoo gave him a kuss, an' gate him his teah, an' let him keep a shillin
aght o' his wage, to get some cigars wi' for him to smook when they wor
aght th' next day. After braikfast i'th mornin they set off.

They lived near th' Stashun at Manningham, in a haase off Valley Road,
soa they cut across, an' ovver th' canal, an' up bi Spinkwell, into th'
main road for Peel Park. It wor varry hot, soa bi th' time they gate
into th' park, an' lukt at th' flaar beds daan bi th' lake, an' climbed
up on to th' terrace, they wor varry glad to sit daan on a seeat near to
whear th' band stand is.

Ther's a grand view thro' thear, yo can see reight ovver Bradforth as
far as Lister's Milns, an' Queensbury--th' sun wor shinin, an' Dick wor
just leetin one o'th cigars when a young man abaat two or three an'
twenty coom daan th' walk, huggin' a basket--when he seed em he stopt,
an' sed:--

"Can yo give me a match, mate?"

"Eah," Dick sed, "hear's a box, help thisen,"--when he'd leeted his
pipe, Mary sed, "This is a varry nice park, sir."

"I," he answered, "an' it's a nice place for coortin in, on a neet when
th' band isn't playin--you cannot coom here ov a evenin withaat findin
abaat hawf a scooar o' cupples--yo see it's net too near th' taan, wol
it's nice an' quiet--but it's net too lonely nawther, a decent lass can
coom here wi' her sweetheart, an' nawther her mother nor nubdy else can
say owt agean it, for ther's allus somdy awther commin or gooin."

"Yo seem to know it well?" Dick sed to th' young feller.

He wor nobbut a ugly chap, but when Dick sed this, he smiled wol he wor
nearly nice lukkin, an' his een twinkled wi' fun, as he sed,

"Aw should think aw do know it, an' aboon a bit too, why aw wor
rewinated net hawf a yard thro' whear yor missis is sittin."

Mary jumped up as if th' seat wor baan to bite her, an' her nelly
tummeld reight thro' th' railin, an' ligged among th' shrubs on the
slope abaat ten feet below.

When th' young feller seed that, he fair skriked aght wi' laffin, but
befoor Dick could do owt, he wor ovver th' r