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

An’ ance, on the nychte o’ a huntan’ tryste,

A blythesome companye

There lychtyt doon i’ the Black Bull closse,

Wychte Wullye’s wyne to pree.

An’ there war Johnstones an’ Jardines routh

Amang that rattlan’ crewe,

Wi’ Herbert Herryes o’ fayre Ha’ Dykes,[12]

An’ his buirdlye byllye Hughe;

An’ gallaunte Wullye o’ Becks was there,

Wi’ Wullye o’ Kyrtletoone:[13]