I'm all fer a good tale. But this aeranion goes on an' on ... I dursent understand a third o' what he says. Gyth's eyes are as bright as the sun ... i aint able ter keep mine open. He's spinnin' some nonsense about this fornost. Taint what Gyth heard from her burnt man. I dursen't know what ter think about him and this araenion now.
Makin' me mind up though. Iffen I aint trusted, an' he is being paid by the burnt man... then feh.. iffen I going ter be hung fer a lie then I may as well be hung fer a truth. Iffen the burnt man dursent trust me, then i shant bother being honest.
See, I made a friend o' one o' them dwarfs. Now, they likes jools, and knows a fair bit about 'em so all the stories say. He said they dursent eat gold, like my gammer said they did. I dursent ask him yet iffen they shit gold, but they may... this dwarf he said that their gammers were carved out of stone by the great powers. the world is odd enough aint it?
He got a beard longer then m'hair. All curled and messed with. Looks like my sister's head. But a beard stuck on a body so's he's only as tall as my little cousin. Girl-face, beard-child. With this deep gravel voice a-coming out of it ... yer cant see his mouth til he smiles. good teeth he got - I seen 'em.
But i dursent mess wi' him, he looks as tough as two old badgers inna sack. Once I stopped starin' - a bloody dwarf! ... there's a tale ter take home! - I started talking to him. He speaks nice, better than a wealas, easier ter understand than this araenion with his mouth full of la-la-la... Bought me a breakfast, a good one too, sausages an' bacon. I fancy meetin more of them. After all, they knows whats good in the world, ale, jools and a bit o' coin. Rich too, all of 'em I be thinking.
So i gets wondering, what i finds in this fornost ... i will keep a bit back, for myself, see. A few jools and such an' sell 'em. Not give Him all what I get. See iffen I can get a bit of coin for my troubles from these dwarfs. Seeing as no one really seems ter see much o' dwarfs, taint like He will know, is it?
