met, meeting, ball.
da ready, already.
by he fe get, by the time he got.
cask to soak. Salt meat is kept in a tub of brine.
XXVII. DUMMY.
There was a man couldn' talk, called Dummy.
One day Annancy bet the King he going to make Dummy talk.
So the King say:—"If you make Dummy talk I will give you one of my daughter fe marry."