Contents.

[Poetry.]

[ Bite Bigger.]
[ To th' Swallow.]
[Plenty o' Brass.]
[Th' Little Stranger.]
[Babby Burds.]
[Wayvin Mewsic.]
[That's a Fact.]
[Stop at Hooam.]
[ The Short Timer. ]
[ Th' First o'th' Soart.]
[ Lines on Finding a Butterfly in a Weaving Shed.]
[ Uncle Ben.]
[ The New Year's Resolve.]
[ The Old Bachelor's Story.]
[ Aght o' Wark.]
[ Another Babby.]
[ The Little Black Hand.]
[ Lily's Gooan.]
[ My Native Twang.]
[ Shoo's thi' Sister.]
[ Persevere.]
[ To a Roadside Flower.]

[ Prose. Hartley's Cream of Wit and Humour]

[ The New Year.]
[ Valentine Day.]
[ March Winds.]
[ April Fooils.]
[ Policeman's Scrape.]
[ Information.]
[ Watterin' Places.]
[ Flaar Shows.]
[ October Ale.]
[ Force of Example.]
[ Gunpaader Plot.]
[ Th' Last Month.]
[ Meditated Strike.]
[ New Year's Parties.]
[ Smiles, Tears, Getting on.]
[ Mysterious Disappearance.]
[ Sam it up.]
[ Fooils.]
[ Cleanin' Daan Month.]
[ Hay-making.]
[ Hollingworth Lake.]
[ Plagues.]
[ End o'th' Year.]
[ Scientific.]
[ Valentine Dream.]

Poetry.

Bite Bigger.

As aw hurried throo th' taan to mi wark,

(Aw wur lat, for all th' whistles had gooan,)

Aw happen'd to hear a remark,