To nate our awn.”

The New Year’s Epistle.

“There’s sic a gang in our town,

The deevil cannot wrang them,

And cud yen gat ’em put i’ prent

Aw England cuddent bang them.

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Cheat who cheat can’s the common rule,

Fwoaks a’ cheat yen anither;

For he that’s nowther kneave or fuol,