half after two
` Schoolmaster , ' said he , ` I 've a trifling favour to beg of ye . You give the children a half-holiday , Saturdays -- hey ? Well , d'ye think ye could drive the brown hoss , Trumpeter , into Tregarrick this afternoon ? The fact is , my old friend Abe Walters , that kept the Packhorse Inn is lying dead , and they bury ` en at half after two to-day . I 'd be main glad to show respect at the funeral and tell Mrs. Walters how much deceased 'll be missed , ancetera ; but I might so well try to fly in the air . Now if you could attend and just pass the word that I 'm on my back with the colic , but that you 've come to show respect in my place , I 'd take it very friendly of ye . There 'll be lashins o ' vittles an ' drink .