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

We s’ ol’a’s hing togidder weel,

An’ beeath du what we can—

A borden ’s leeter shared by two,

Nor when it’s borne by yan.

But if we’s plagued wi’ trūbble,

(An’ whā’s fray trūbble free?)

I’ s’ try ut lig thy share tull mine,

An’ kep it oa’ fray thee.

An’ if we’s pooer, we s’ sham’ nin,

For rich fooak’s no’but fooak;