Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes

[page 377]

WILLIAM'S BWOY.

I'll goo, an' we'll zet up a wicket,

An' have a good innèns at cricket;

An' teäke a good plounce in the water.

Where clote-leaves do grow in the zummer.

WILLIAM'S MAID.

I'll goo, an' we'll play "Thread the needle"

Or "Huntèn the slipper," or wheedle

Young Jemmy to fiddle, an' reely