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

Whativer wrang’t the’, I wad reet the’,

Whoa-iver fails the’, trust i’ me.

Wait! Nay, tak’ mair time, I pray the’—

Shūttin’ frae yan like a dart—

Nowte for nowte I’s axin’ frae the’—

Nowte for nowte, but heart for heart.

Sannter, than! Nay, Bella, sannter!

I’ll nūt say ya wūrd ’at’s wrang,

But th’u’s a wannter!—I’s a wannter!

An’ nowder sud be wannters lang.