o'it

"'Tain't wuth it," they say, "haulin 'yer guts out night an' day, an 'gettin' no forrarder at the end o'it."

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

"Iss," added Tony, "I used to scrub, and help her wi 'the washing (an' kiss her tu), but I ain't done nort to it since her spoke to me rough, like that, an 'now I be got out the way o'it, an' that's the reason o'it -- thic Mam 'Idger there!"

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

"Ah," they say, "his father rose he up like a gen'leman, an 'that's what comes o'it."

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

-- They'm in for a night o'it sure, till the tide falls, if we don 'take 'em round to Refuge Cove.

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

North Sea men an 'the Cornishmen wi' their big, decked harbour boats, they _have_ got summut under their feet -- somewhere they can get in under, out the way o'it.

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

Yu may know everything there is to know about fishing, but, "he added grimly," if yu don 'know when to be off, 'twill all o'it be no gude to

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

You wuden 'think I'd had two nights o'it, wude' ee?

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

And twa upon the gob o'it and ye shall hae them a '

Captain Wedderburn's Courtship 1898

With a laugh and a jest -- no matter if it be a raucous laugh and a coarse jest -- they assert: "What will be, will be; us can't but du our best, for 'tis the way o'it."

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

'Tis a sure thing, you see -- once yu'm in it an 'behaves yourself -- wi' a pension at the end o'it.

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900