pass ’elly gate t’ goldy dell. [We passed through hell’s gate to get to the golden valley.]

p.51 AYRE: [to BETSHEB] Pearly dawn pass glommen time, thou pass demon time. Pass tempest ’n’ temper time. [If you can survive night-time, then dawn will come and you will have survived another night of demons and the wilds and anger of nature.]

p.53 BETSHEB: Goldy green breathen int’ thee, rain breathen int’ thee. [Nature is breathing into you, the rain is breathing into you.]

The earth breathen int’ thee. Thou mus’ live! [The earth breathes into you. You must live!]

[breathing into AYRE’s mouth] I am in thee, thee in me. [Thumping AYRE] Breathen! Breathen the tempest! Breathen the rain! [Crying out, desperately] Breathen the world! Thee must breathen the world! [I am in you, you in me. Breathe! Breathe in the rain! Breathe in the world! You must breathe in the world!]

Breathen! Breathen the world! The world is breathen thee! Mumma! Breathen! [Breathe! Breathe in the world! The world is breathing you! Mumma! Breathe!]

p.54 BETSHEB: Pass snow; nowt more outcastin’. [Once it has finished snowing, his exile will be over.]

p.55 BETSHEB: The belly o’ ’er quim. Lovely. [Her belly is full. It’s lovely.]

Francis outcastin’; come back ’n’ look at ’is belle ’n’ ’e think ‘the dead moon o’ me cunt’. [Francis is in exile, but when he comes back and looks at his girl he will think that I have a dead moon in my cunt.]

Me bod shakin’ like a leaf, out o’ the blue. [My body shakes like a leaf; these attacks come on suddenly.]

Me bod in the toothy bite o’ a bad dream. [My body is in the toothy bite of a bad dream.]

p.58 BETSHEB: ’E me las’ blood. Stef is me las’ blood. I am cast t’ the windy. He me las’ blood boyo. [Stef is my last relative, the last of my family. I am cast adrift. He was the last male member of the family.]

p.63 BETSHEB: [screaming] Nowt more! [No more!]

p.70 BETSHEB: [happily] Rack ’n’ cat o’ the windy, bumpin’ thru the trees. [The wind sounds like the rack and cat as it blows through the trees.]