[4] 'Mistetched' = spoiled; of ill habits. _Cf._ Chaucer's 'tetch,' a spot. [5] 'Cavil' = the quarterly ballot amongst coal-hewers for their places down the pit. Seams differ greatly in quality and depth of coal, and in ease of working. This is the miners' own rough-and-ready method of adjusting the inequalities. [6] The chairman of a local District Council is _ex-officio_ a magistrate. [7] 'Shootin'' (shouting). 'Shuttin',' on the other hand, would mean shooting, whereby quaint confusions have occasionally arisen. [8] Come along. [9] The Assizes. [10] Viz., Bonnie Bella, a famous greyhound of 'the Heckler's.' 'IN MEMORIOV'M' 'Ay, that's what 'tis,' replied 'the Heckler' to my query, 'it's an "in memoriov'm"--Latin, ye ken, meanin' in memory ov him. The words is alike, mevvies, but it's Latin language, I's warn'd, an' I howked it oot upon that headstone myself wiv a clasp-knife.' I knelt down upon the sandy dune and brushed aside the bents that nearly covered the squat gray stone with their long lashes, and eventually deciphered a straggling array of figures which for their illegibility would have enraptured an antiquary. 'It was just below us,' continued 'the Heckler,' 'that I found his cap, an' thinkin' him drooned, an' him bein' a favour-yte wi' me, I just put up that bit stone for him an' carved his initials on it, an' the Latin, an' G. C., that's for us, "the Heckler," ye ken, his mark. But it was a false alarm efter aal, an' noo that Jim Hedley's a Right Hon. Lord Mayor oot iv Australie, I's warn'd but when he's put under the sod he'll hev a hearse an' four horses an' a proper musulyum' (mausoleum) 'tiv hisself.' 'What made you think he was drowned?' I inquired. 'Did you think it a case of suicide?' 'Ay, o' course I did; we aal did that, an' not wivvoot reasons,' responded 'the Heckler,' 'for he was full o' misery at that time, an' wanted ti get shot o' the whole lot ov it. Jim was a fine, tall, proper lad--"bonny Jim" the lasses called him--wunnerfu' handy, too, iv aal sorts of ways, an' as for behaviour, wey, he could talk ti my lord as canny as tiv a pot-boy. 'Well, wiv aal these gifts o' fortune it wasn't surprisin' he got hisself sweetheartin' wiv a young, bonny, quiet-faced lassie, daughter ov aad Sheepshanks, the farmer, close in by the village. 'It was a bit lift for Jim, for she had some brass, but aad Sheepshanks, he tries to forbid the "callins"' (banns) 'i' church; "for what's a pitman," says he, "that a farmer's daughter should marry on?--a dirty-faced, drunken, dog-lovin', gamblin' chep," says he; an' a lot o' gob o' that kind, ye ken, bein' a red-hot Tory wiv a lot o' Noah's-ark kind ov ideas iv his head. 'The lassie didn't think that, though; she just warshipped Jim, followin' him aboot wiv her eyes everywhere, just like the aad bitch' (here he nodded towards the greyhound beside him) 'does "the Heckler."