Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
BEING
SHORT STORIES AND RHYMES
IN THE DIALECTS OF THE WEST BORDER COUNTIES.
ALEXANDER CRAIG GIBSON, F.S.A.
What hempen Home-spuns have we swaggering here.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Speech, manners, morals, all without disguise.
The Excursion.
LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH; CARLISLE: GEO. COWARD. MDCCCLXIX.
WILLIAM DICKINSON,
OF NORTH MOSSES AND THORNCROFT,
Alexander Craig Gibson
Transcriber’s Notes
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
JOE AND THE GEOLOGIST.
T’ REETS ON’T;
WISE WIFF.
LAL DINAH GRAYSON.
JWOHNNY, GIT OOT!
THE RUNAWAY WEDDING.
BILLY WATSON’ LONNING.
LONE AND WEARY.
T’ CLEAN NED O’ KES’ICK.
BEN WELLS.
SANNTER, BELLA!
MARY RAY AN’ ME.
MEENIE BELL.
“THE FARMERS’ WIVES O’ ANNANDALE.”
A REMINISCENCE OF CORRIE.
REMINISCENCES OF LOCKERBIE.
YAN O’ T’ ELECT.
CURSTY BENN.
TOM RAILTON’S WHITE SPATS.
A SNECK POSSET.
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