"Aw'm fur th' Isle o' Man."
"Heaw long ar't stayin'?"
"Thirty bob," was the laconic reply, meaning that the length of his stay would depend on the time his money might last.
Lancashire Proverbs are numerous and much to the point, and they generally inculcate their lesson with a touch of dry humour.
An expressive saying is that: "He hangs th' fiddle at th' dur sneck" applied to a person who is all life and gaiety when with his boon companions, but sullen and sour of temper at home.
Another proverb has it that "There's most thrutching where there's least room." Hence, probably, the Lancashire fable: "The flea and the elephant were passing into the Ark together, said the flea to his big brother: 'Now then, maister! no thrutching!'"
There is quaint wisdom in the saying, "It costs a deal more playing than working."
"Th' quiet sow eats o' t' draff," is another Lancashire proverb of deep significance as applied to any one who speaks little, but appears to take in all that he hears, and uses it to his own advantage.
When one gets married "he larns wot meyl is a pound."