Dialect Rhyme.
The subjoined is a specimen of the dialect spoken in the county of Lancashire, England. The verse is a description of a lost baby, by the town-crier, or bellman, who still plies his trade in out-of-the-way parts of England—
Law-st oather [either] to-day or else some toime to morn,
As pratty a babby as ever wur born;
It has cheeks like red roses, two bonny blue een,
Had it meauth daubed wi' traycle th' last toime it were seen;
It's just cuttin' it teeth, an' has very sore gums,
An' it's gettin' a habit o' suckin' it thumbs;
Thoose at foind it may keep it, there's nob'dy'll care,
For thoose at hav lost it, hav lots moor to spare!