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

Si’s t’e, Bella, nay but, si’s t’e,

Hoo th’u’s makin’ t’ ne’bours laugh;

Th’u’s a taistrel fair ’at is t’e,

But I like thee weel——Hŭt, shaff!—

Whoa can tell his stwory rūnnin?—

Whoa can coort an’ win a reàce?—

If th’u’s flay’t I’s foase, or fūnnin’,

Stop, an’ leuk me fair i’ t’ feàce!

Leuk, an’ see if I wad cheat the’—

Leuk, I tell the’, glimes wont dee!