Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent / Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties

by Alexander Craig Gibson

“The auld wife cried but the house, ‘Jenny, come ben!’”

Song—The Yellow Hair’d Laddie.

But, S, without (probably from be out).

“Beauty but bounty’s but bauch.”—Proverb.

But and, Old S, also, likewise.

“Adieu madame, my mother dear,

But and my sisters three.”

Ballad—Lord Maxwell’s Good Night.

Byspel, C, a mischievous person.

“It’s a fair byspel ’at is’t. It breaks o’ ’at cūms iv it geàt.”