The Morel house

I had the chance to re-visit D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers this week and I was impressed all over again with how great it is.  This is one of my favourite pieces of dialogue.

Meantime Arthur, still fond of his father, would lean on the arm of Morel's chair and say:
"Tell us about down pit, daddy."
This Morel loved to do.
"Well, there's one little 'oss-we call 'im Taffy," he would begin.
"An' he's a fawce 'un!"
Morel had a warm way of telling a story.  He made one feel Taffy's cunning.
"He's a brown 'un," he would answer, "an' not very high.  Well, he comes i' th' stall wi' a rattle, an' then yo' 'ear 'im sneeze.
"'Ello, Taff,' you say, 'what art sneezing' for? Bin ta'ein' some snuff?'
"An' 'e sneezes again.  Then he slices up an' shoves 'is 'ead on yer, that cadin'.
"'What's want, Taff?' yo' say."