The Memories that Abide" by Elspet Keith Robertson Scott contains this:
An aged woman, bed-ridden, was waited "on by 'a sweet-natured daughter of seventy-five, on whom her sharp tongue was'daily whetted. Said the visitor, "Had you a large family, Meg?" "Eh, na, mem. I just had sax bairns by sax braw lads!" "Oh!" was the faint response, "then you never married?" "Mairritt! me "matrriet!" and the old dame sat up in bed to emphasize her scorn, "I wad never I wadna be beholden to any The Marquess of Crewe describes a little book "Country Conversations," the work of a maiden lady, published in 1881—these conversations come from Staffordshire close to the Cheshire border.
Here is a satisfied mother:
Mary's a very good She says to me one day breaking the curd, never let loose my affections on no man till I have proven him to be pious and in good circumstances."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.